{"id":329766,"date":"2025-10-24T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329766\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:36:13","slug":"mystery-man-in-an-ap-photo-after-the-louvre-heist-creates-a-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329766\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery man in an AP photo after the Louvre heist creates a buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre<\/a> when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. <\/p>\n

Instinctively, he took the shot.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a particularly great photo, with someone\u2019s shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, Camus told himself. <\/p>\n

But it did the job \u2014 showing French police sealing off the world\u2019s most-visited museum<\/a> after the brazen daylight robbery<\/a> last Sunday. <\/p>\n

Plus, Camus figured, the guy walking past the officers was unusually well dressed, in a trench coat, a jacket and tie and wearing a fedora, adding a touch of Paris couture to the scene. <\/p>\n

And so off went the photo to AP\u2019s worldwide audiences. <\/p>\n

From there, fertile imaginations sprung into high gear \u2014 whipping up an online buzz. <\/p>\n

Posts on social media declared the well-dressed man to be a French detective \u2014 if you will, a more dashing version of the famed Inspector Clouseau from \u201cPink Panther\u201d movies \u2014 even though AP\u2019s photo caption had not identified him. <\/p>\n

It simply read: \u201cPolice officers block an access to the Louvre museum after a robbery Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, in Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n

A post on X that now has 5.6 million views says: \u201cActual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre.\u201d <\/p>\n

Another poster \u2014 with 1.2 million followers \u2014 claimed the man \u201cwho looks like he came out of a detective film noir from the 1940s is an actual French police detective who\u2019s investigating the theft.\u201d <\/p>\n

Camus says nothing he saw led him to that conclusion \u2014 the man was just someone who streamed away from the Louvre as authorities evacuated the area, Camus says. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe appeared in front of me, I saw him, I took the photo,\u201d Camus says. \u201cHe passed by and left.\u201d <\/p>\n

If the unidentified man really is one of the more than 100 investigators hunting for the jewel thieves, the authorities are keeping it very hush-hush.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d rather keep the mystery alive ;)\u201d the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said with a wink in an email response to AP questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1578,4219,1033,171,5323,156,57,2936,1165,159024,3715,8156,1164,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-329766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-evacuations","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-law-enforcement","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-louvre-museum","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-theft","22":"tag-travel","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115430593839741920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}