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A French police officer walks in front of the Louvre Museum after a robbery, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Dimitar Dilkoff, AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1761015911247cropped-Screen Shot 2025-10-21 at 11.03.58 AM.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A French police officer walks in front of the Louvre Museum after a robbery, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Dimitar Dilkoff, AFP</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><br/></div><p>PARIS, France — The Louvre museum on Monday denied having contacted an Israeli intelligence firm to investigate after an audacious jewel heist at the French institution.</p><p>CGI Group, based in Tel Aviv, told AFP the world-famous museum had asked for help because of its past success recovering stolen artifacts from a German museum in 2019.</p><p>&quot;The Louvre exceptionally asked us to uncover the identity of people involved in the theft and to retrieve the stolen artifacts,&quot; CGI Group CEO Zvika Naveh told AFP.</p><p>But a museum representative refuted the statement however. &quot;The Louvre management denies it,&quot; the museum said, without further comment.</p><p>Asked for clarification, Naveh said the request had come &quot;via an intermediary acting on behalf of the Louvre and other entities, including insurance companies&quot;.</p><p>The Louvre management insisted however that it had not &quot;contacted anyone&quot;.</p><p>French police are hunting four thieves who stole nine pieces of priceless jewelry after breaking into the Louvre on Sunday. One piece -- a crown covered in more than 1,000 diamonds -- was dropped as they fled.</p><p>The 2019 robbery at Dresden&#x27;s Green Vault museum saw the theft of 18th-century jewels worth 113 million euros ($132 million).</p><p>The stolen jewels, insured for more than 113 million euros, were partly returned by the five criminals convicted for the theft.</p><p>Contacted by AFP at the time, the Dresden State Art Collections denied any cooperation with the Israeli firm.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/10/19/power-tool-wielding-robbers-flee-louvre-with-priceless-jewellery-2158">Robbers steal French crown jewels from Louvre</a></div><p>CGI Group CEO Zvika Naveh told AFP that the Louvre and the Dresden museums &quot;can say whatever they want,&quot; but insisted that his company had been contacted on behalf of both museums.</p><p>Refusing to give details for reasons of &quot;confidentiality,&quot; he said the request could have been made by &quot;the insurance company, the insurance company’s lawyer, any entity connected to the museum — it could even be a ministry.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Each party has a different interest. The museum’s interest is not the same as that of the insurance company... or of the security company, which made mistakes,&quot; he added.</p><p>&quot;Some people have an interest in bringing this story out, and others have an interest in denying it... of course, the French police don’t like the fact that we, as an Israeli private firm, were tasked with the investigation,&quot; he said.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/brqDhz8lJQY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f6baBeBu9Dc?&amp;t=1s&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>The Louvre museum on Monday denied having contacted an Israeli intelligence firm to investigate after an audacious jewel heist at the French institution.</p>

The Louvre museum on Monday denied having contacted an Israeli intelligence firm to investigate after an audacious jewel heist at the French institution.

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Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe

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Published Oct 21, 2025 11:07 AM PHT

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