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Daily Express
|February 06, 2026
Bent and missing 10 diamonds...the crown dropped in £76m Louvre raid
LOUVRE bosses have released photos showing the damage done to a Napoleonic crown as thieves dropped it amid a £76million raid.
Once owned by Empress Eugénie de Montijo, it was abandoned by the four men as they fled the Paris museum last October.
A Louvre spokesman said yesterday that the piece was "crushed and significantly deformed" but "retains its near-complete integrity, allowing for full restoration".
It was damaged by the gang's angle grinder as they cut open its reinforced glass display case in the Louvre's Apollo gallery.
This story is from the February 06, 2026 edition of Daily Express.
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