Loot within the booty?
The thieves who fleeced $102 million value of jewels from the Louvre Museum could have hidden the dear items up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France.
That eye-popping speculation was made by America’s most notorious jewellery thief, Larry Lawton, who spoke with The Put up concerning the headline-grabbing heist.
“I hope that they had sufficient cash to actually lie low and get in a foreign country,” Lawton, 64, mentioned of the 4 thieves who pulled off the audacious — if considerably haphazard — Paris theft over the weekend.
Lawton looted 25 jewellery shops throughout America’s East Coast in the course of the Eighties and ’90s, netting a complete haul estimated at $18 million. He typically zip-tied terrified retailer house owners and prospects in the course of the daytime raids.
Along with his personal expertise as a reference, Lawton revealed that if the Louvre bandits — whom he described as “amateurs” and “idiots” — escaped on an airplane, they wouldn’t have put the jewels of their hand baggage.
“Imagine it or not, relying on the dimensions, you can take a few of that jewellery aside and actually ‘suitcase’ it,” Lawton mentioned, explaining that the usually standard time period entails “inserting one thing in your rectum.”
“You could have seven additional inches in your anus, and the rationale I do know that is [because] I’ve really had a knife up my a–,” the ex-con shockingly confessed, recalling his previous wild life and crimes.
“You set a knife in half of a [travel] toothbrush holder,” he graphically continued, “and put masking tape on the opposite finish.”
As soon as one of many nation’s most wished males, Lawton consistently evaded seize because of immaculate planning and precision.
Nevertheless, the native New Yorker says the Louvre robbers don’t possess the identical prowess; it’s been reported that the 4 thieves made main errors in the course of the heist.
One of many males allegedly left behind a glove, whereas one other dropped Empress Eugenie’s imperial crown in the course of the hasty getaway, damaging the historic headwear.
“They’re not professionals like I used to be,” he added. “I robbed 25 f–king shops and I by no means dropped the jewellery, no much less a f–king crown!”
Moreover, the group failed an evidence-destroying try to set hearth to a piece truck and ladder that they used whereas posing as building staff throughout their break-in.
Due to their errors, Lawton believes that the thieves will ultimately be recognized and arrested — even when they’ve fled France with the loot up their booties.
“How do you allow gloves?” an exasperated Lawton requested, noting that sweat may stay. “They’ve DNA and — until these guys lived a f–king pristine life, and I doubt it — they’ll get caught.”
The reformed felon conjectured that at the very least one of many robbers is a Parisian native with some type of connection to the famed museum.
In response to Lawton, somebody on the Louvre seemingly shared info, probably unwittingly, with a robber, who then used it in nefarious methods.
In the meantime, Lawton — who was ultimately arrested in 1996 and served 11 years behind bars — says probably the most essential a part of being a jewellery thief is having the ability to fence the stolen items.
Given the rarity of the Louvre jewels, he believes it could be exhausting for the criminals to dump the objects — even when they’re taken aside and damaged down.
Nevertheless, regardless of their errors and the worry they’re now seemingly feeling, Lawton mentioned the foursome had been little question elated after exiting the constructing with eight objects.
“You’re f–king juiced,” he mentioned, describing the sensation of finishing up a raid. “Your adrenaline is flowing.
“I’ve achieved each drug within the guide, however there’s no excessive like strolling out of a jewellery retailer realizing you bought $1 million in a f–king bag.”
