The Cognacq-Jay Museum, in Paris, victim of a robbery

The success of the “Pocket Luxury” exhibition, which was to end on September 29 at the Cognacq-Jay Museum, in the 3^e district of Paris, had led its management to extend it until the end of November. Sad decision: Wednesday, November 20, around 10:30 a.m., four hooded men stole, in the presence of visitors, five collector's boxes and snuff boxes by smashing the display window that contained them with an ax and a baseball bat. According to information from Mondesome of the stolen items had been on loan from the British crown. The exhibition, which includes objects from the collection of Ernest Cognacq, benefited in particular from loans from the Château de Versailles and the Louvre.

A psychological unit was set up by the City of Paris, which filed a complaint, and the museum will remain closed until further notice, for the purposes of the investigation. “No injuries have been reported. The municipal police and the national police intervened immediately following the events”specifies the town hall in a press release. According to the office of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the amount of the damage is being assessed. According to information from Mondethe amount of loot would amount to one million euros.

The Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) has been investigated for armed robbery by an organized gang, we have learned again The World.

The affair rekindles the trauma of Parisian museums, which had not suffered such a burglary since the “heist of the century” which occurred in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. At the time, five master paintings had been stolen by Vréjan Tomic, alias “the Spider-Man”: Still life with candlestick, by Fernand Léger, The Woman with the Fanby Amedeo Modigliani, The Pigeon with peasby Pablo Picasso The Olivier near l’Estaqueby Georges Braque, and The Pastoralby Henri Matisse. Despite a lengthy investigation, none of these works have since been found. The prospect of getting our hands on the precious objects stolen from the Cognacq-Jay Museum remains slim. Gold objects are often melted and transformed.