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\n\tJewelry worth an estimated \u20ac4 million ($4.57 million) was stolen from a decorative arts museum in northeastern France\u2019s Alsace region early on Sunday morning, less than a week after another heist at an archaeological museum on the other side of the country.<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to French reports, soon after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, masked thieves smashed through a door to the Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder, which is dedicated to Art Deco and Art Nouveau designer Ren\u00e9 Lalique. Next, they broke through six glass display cases and snatched about 20 pieces of jewelry, which were mostly made of crystal, a source told Le Parisien<\/em>. Though alarms went off, for reasons that are still unclear, a security monitoring company did not immediately alert police. Eventually, when a maintenance worker arrived at the museum to start her shift, she discovered the crime scene and was the first person to call police.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAll the alarms went off, just as they were supposed to.\u00a0But then, apparently, there was a major lapse in the security monitoring company: they didn\u2019t respond immediately, and they didn\u2019t notify the police,\u201d said the mayor of the French town, Christian Dorschner. <\/p>\n \n\tThe museum was also considered a \u201csensitive\u201d site. It had been the subject of a security system review that led to some additional protective measures that, after Sunday\u2019s robbery, proved insufficient, according to a source speaking to AFP<\/em>. A message on the museum website states it will remain closed for several days following a burglary, and asks for the public\u2019s understanding. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThis latest heist recalls the brazen, daytime Louvre theft of France\u2019s Crown Jewels in October, which, despite putting the country\u2019s museums on relatively higher alert, does not appear to be staving off a spate of recent thefts. The Sunday jewelry robbery comes after thieves nabbed a clay vessel containing about 40 Gallo-Roman-era gold and silver coins, worth an estimated \u20ac120,000 (about $134,000), from the Centre arch\u00e9ologique du Montans in southwest France, in the early hours of July 1.<\/p>\n \n\tThe heist at the start of the month was reportedly pulled off \u201cwithout great difficulty,\u201d and the archaeological museum has no video-surveillance system, despite plans to install one. \u201cShould we have done so early? After the fact, it\u2019s easy to say that yes, we should have,\u201d admitted local mayor Jonathan Vidal.<\/p>\n \n\tIn September alone, porcelain treasures were robbed from France\u2019s Adrien Dubouche National Museum in Limoges, and the same month, gold worth about $700,000 was snatched from Paris\u2019 Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/jewelry-heist-lalique-museum-france-1234791148\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5ffc71f0e0928364466038.jpg?w=1024″] Jewelry worth an estimated \u20ac4 million ($4.57 million) was stolen from a decorative arts museum in northeastern France\u2019s Alsace region early on Sunday morning, less than a week after another heist at an archaeological museum on the other side of the country. According to French reports, soon after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2030245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}