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FBI agents from ’93 WTC attack blast Mamdani for embracing radical imam
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Two retired FBI agents who investigated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing told Fox News Digital New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is «foolish» to campaign with an imam linked to the attack.
Mamdani attended prayers Friday at Masjid at-Taqwa on Fulton Street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, later posting a smiling photo with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn cleric who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the bombing and a longtime defender of convicted terrorists, raising funds for their legal defenses.
«Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community,» wrote Mamdani, who was a toddler when terrorists parked a bomb-laden van in the garage beneath the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Zohran Mamdani tweeted Friday about his meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Yusef Abdus Salaam. (@ZohranKMamdani/X)
Retired FBI agent Frank Pellegrino, who investigated the Feb. 26, 1993 attack, said seeing the frontrunner to be the city’s next mayor with Wahhaj left him disgusted.
«Zohran Mamdani’s embrace of Siraj Wahhaj is an example of Mamdani’s ignorance of history. Either he doesn’t know who Wahhaj is or he doesn’t care. Whichever it is, Mamdani looks foolish,» Pellegrino said.
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John Anticev, another retired FBI agent who was the lead case agent on the 1993 attack, told Fox News Digital Mamdani should know better than to court an endorsement from someone like Wahhaj.
«Everybody who is in politics should be aware of the people whose endorsement they’re getting,» Anticev said. «Imam Siraj Wahhaj has been a cleric who has endorsed a radical agenda.»
Wahhaj, born Jeffrey Kearse, founded the Brooklyn mosque in 1991 and has a long history of controversy. Following the World Trade Center attack, prosecutors identified him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the bombing after he sponsored appearances by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called «Blind Sheikh» who was later convicted of masterminding the plot. Wahhaj wasn’t charged with any crimes and has denied involvement in the attack. Wahhaj also raised legal-defense funds for El Sayyid Nosair, who assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 and was also convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the 1993 bombing.
Wahhaj didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In court, Wahhaj served as a character witness for Abdel Rahman, calling him a «respected scholar.» In witness testimony, he also admitted raising legal defense funds for Nosair, who was initially acquitted in the killing of Kahane, but is now serving a life sentence.
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani speaks during an interview on «The Story with Martha MacCallum» at Fox News on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
For Muslims who oppose Wahhaj’s ideological interpretation of political Islam, called Islamism, Mamdani’s alliance with Wahhaj is a disturbing window into what his mayoral term could bring, with his allegiances to groups and leaders with Islamist sympathies and anti-American and anti-semitic views.
Muslim scholar Dalia Ziada, Washington, D.C., coordinator and research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, said Wahhaj represents the same Islamist ideology that fueled decades of extremism in the Middle East.
«I am particularly concerned to see mosques used as political rallying platforms in the free and democratic United States,» she said. «By embracing Wahhaj, Zohran Mamdani is sidelining moderate Muslims and normalizing an extremist ideology that once inspired terror on American soil and still fuels radicalization within segments of the Muslim community today.»
Soraya Deen, founder of the Muslim Women Speakers Movement and a co-founder of the Clarity Coalition, a network of Muslims, ex-Muslims and allies challenging Islamist extremism, heard Wahhaj for the first time 20 years ago in a talk to Muslim youth in Los Angeles.
«I was stunned and bewildered by his call to destroy America, and make Islam great,» she said.
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Deen called the photo of Mamdani with Wahhaj disturbing, noting, «A theologian spewing hatred for the United States — and Mamdani smiling beside him, calling him ‘one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders’ — is dangerous for America and dangerous for Muslims.»
In the photo, there isn’t a woman to be seen, because Wahhaj also practices the interpretation of Islam that denies women access to the main hall of mosques, believing they would sexually tempt the men praying inside. Deen said, «Despite the gender jihad women are facing in the Muslim world, Mamdani poses for a photo op that emboldens the men suppressing women’s rights.»
In June, a political action committee supporting Mamdani, «New Yorkers for Lower Costs,» accepted $100,000 donations from the «Unity and Justice Fund,» a political action committee tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group designated an unindicted coconspirator in the trial of five Holy Land Foundation leaders. The five leaders were convicted of funneling about $12.4 million to Hamas and sentenced to decades in prison. Mamdani has included sympathetic lyrics about the «Holyland Five» in a rap. Earlier this year, Nihad Awad, a co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a close ally of Wahhaj, said he was «happy» about the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage by Hamas terrorists into Israel.
Similarly, Wahhaj has preached a philosophy of exploiting America’s democracy to further a conquest for Islam. In 1991, according to a videotape of the event, Wahhaj told a gathering of Muslims: «I just want to say this. Brothers and sisters, in my opinion what the Muslims do in America will have a profound effect on Muslims everywhere on this earth. As long as you remember that if you get involved with politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don’t get in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics can be a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.»
Frank Pellegrino, retired FBI agent, who investigated the 1993 World Trade Center attacks. (Frank Pellegrino)
In 2011, Wahhaj urged Muslims to donate to the legal defense of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist dubbed «Lady Al Qaeda» for attempting to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
«I think that she is innocent,» he told a Worcester, Massachusetts, fundraiser. «There’s reasonable doubt, and by law, if there’s reasonable doubt, you have to acquit.»
Siddiqui, who served as a courier to Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, is serving an 86-year sentence at a Texas federal prison for attempted murder and multiple other felonies.
In a 1992 talk, Wahhaj declared that if American Muslims united, «you wouldn’t have to vote for Bush or Clinton… we’d elect our own emir and give allegiance to him.»
Three years later, he shared his views on the U.S., saying, «You know what this country is? It’s a garbage can. Filthy. Filthy and sick.»
Former U.S. Navy Lt. Dr. Zuhdi Jasser witnessed a keynote address by Wahhaj in 1995 at the Islamic Society of North America conference, where the imam held up a Qur’an and declared his wish to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law.
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«There’s nothing more clarifying on the Islamist extremism and dangers of Zohran Mamdani than his friendship with known anti-American jihadi Imam Siraj Wahhaj,» said Jasser, now president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. «Mamdani’s fealty to one of America’s most radicalizing clerics tells you everything you need to know.»
A convert, Wahhaj, 75, rose to prominence as a bridge between immigrant Muslim leaders and America’s Black Muslim converts. He has headlined fundraisers for groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, including the alphabet soup of organizations that experts consider legacy groups for the Muslim Brotherhood: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and the Muslim American Society (MAS).
In 2003, he told the Wall Street Journal that a society ruled by strict Islamic law, where adulterers are stoned and thieves’ hands are cut off, «would be superior to American democracy.»
In talks, Wahhaj denounced the U.S. government as «controlled by Shaitan,» the Arabic word for the devil, urged Muslims not to befriend «non-believers,» condemned homosexuality as «a disease of this society,» and supported Islamic laws that punish sex outside of marriage with 100 lashes and stoning. He denounced Muslims befriending non-Muslims, saying, «Woe to the Muslims who pick kafirs,» or non-Muslims, «for friends.»
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, spoke to supporters at a canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
Wahhaj even instructed Muslims to bar their children from making friends outside the faith.
«Don’t you know our children are surrounded by kafirs?» he said. «I’m telling you, making the hearts of our children corrupt, dirty, foul. It’s clear, the principles are clear. Birds of a feather, they say, flock together. And so, when our Muslims hang out with the non-Muslim, you become just like them. You talk just like them. You do what they do, you dress the way they dress, you act the way they act, you want to be just like them, because their hearts are corrupt, and now they’re corrupting your heart.»
His personal life has also been shadowed by scandal. In 2018, three of Wahhaj’s children were arrested after authorities discovered 11 malnourished children living in a New Mexico compound where one of his grandchildren had died during an attempted exorcism.
The embrace of such a figure has ignited debate over Mamdani’s judgment and the Democratic Party’s tolerance for radical associations. Wahhaj remains a revered figure among some Islamist activists, including Linda Sarsour, who in 2017 called him «a mentor» and «my favorite person in the room.» Sarsour left the Women’s March, which she co-founded, amid accusations of antisemitism. She has led many of the anti-Israel marches since the Oct. 7 attack, leading chants of claiming Israel «from the river to the sea.»
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For reform-minded Muslims, however, the image of a rising American politician celebrating Wahhaj carries grim symbolism.
«It sends the wrong message to moderate Muslims who are working hard to separate faith from extremism,» said Ziada. «And it tells the broader American public that those aspiring to lead this country have forgotten what extremist ideology once did to New York’s skyline.»
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Israel bombardeó el sur de la Franja de Gaza tras un presunto ataque de Hamas y peligra el acuerdo de paz en Medio Oriente
La Fuerza Aérea de Israel bombardeó Rafah, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza, después de que, presuntamente, milicianos atacaran a las fuerzas militares apostadas en esa zona, y peligra el acuerdo de paz en Medio Oriente, lo que genera una situación de mucha fragilidad. Hasta el momento se desconoce si hay heridos o muertos, ni tampoco si este fuego cruzado podría poner en peligro el alto el fuego que entró en vigencia el 10 de octubre.
Israel tenía el control del 30% de la Franja de Gaza, y al retirarse empezaron a haber enfrentamientos entre distintos grupos terroristas, encabezados por Hamas, para controlar la zona. Sumado a que, según Israel, hubo ataques con morteros a sus posiciones.
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El primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, ordenó “actuar enérgicamente contra objetivos terroristas” en Gaza, nueve días después de la entrada en vigor del alto el fuego. Un comunicado oficial confirmó: “Tras la violación del alto el fuego por parte de Hamas, el primer ministro Netanyahu celebró una consulta con el ministro de Defensa y los jefes del sistema de seguridad, y ordenó actuar enérgicamente contra objetivos terroristas en la Franja de Gaza”.
De acuerdo al texto hubo fuego cruzado entre milicianos y el Ejército israelí en Rafah, sur del enclave, después de que los primeros lanzaran contra las tropas “un misil antitanque y disparos” en la zona y “en respuesta, el Ejército empezó a bombardear el área para eliminar la amenaza, desmantelar bocas de túneles y estructuras militares utilizadas para actividad terrorista”.
A su vez el ministro israelí de Defensa, Israel Katz, advirtió en un comunicado: “Hamas pagará un alto precio por cada disparo y cada violación del alto el fuego. Si no entienden el mensaje se intensificará la intensidad de nuestra respuesta”.
En un video al que accedió la agencia EFE se ven a lo lejos columnas de humo en Rafah, donde según otra fuente local aterrizaron varios helicópteros para evacuar a posibles soldados heridos. Según fuentes del brazo armado de Hamas, el grupo había iniciado una operación en Rafah para eliminar a Yasser Abu Shabab, líder de la milicia rival conocida como las “Fuerzas Populares”. Pero soldados israelíes intercedieron para apoyar a Shabab, con ataques cruzados que provocaron la explosión de una excavadora israelí.
Estados Unidos había advertido sobre un incumplimiento del alto el fuego en Gaza, con acusaciones a Hamas
El gobierno de Estados Unidos, clave en el acuerdo de paz en Medio Oriente, advirtió el sábado que tenía “informaciones creíbles” que indicaban que Hamás planeaba “una violación inminente” del alto el fuego en ataque planeado contra civiles palestinos.
El descargo de Hamas sobre las acusaciones de Estados Unidos, con fuertes críticas al gobierno de Israel
Hamas rechazó las advertencias de Estados Unidos y culpó a Israel de haber armado y financiado a esas otras milicias que, dijo, concretaron “asesinatos, secuestros, robos de camiones de ayuda y robos contra civiles”.
Según la organización terrorista los agentes de Policía de Gaza “con un amplio apoyo civil y popular” persiguen a estas pandillas y las hacen responsables “de acuerdo a mecanismos legales claros, para proteger a los ciudadanos y preservar la propiedad pública y privada”.
Apenas un día después del alto el fuego milicianos de Hamas empezaron a reprimir a todos aquellos clanes y milicias que presuntamente colaboraron con Israel a lo largo de los dos años de ofensiva bélica, incluso con ejecuciones públicas de supuestos colaboradores.
El líder de Hamas, Izzat al Rishq, dijo en un comunicado publicado en el canal oficial de Telegram: “La ocupación sionista sigue infringiendo el acuerdo y buscando pretextos infundados para justificar sus crímenes. Los intentos de (el primer ministro de Israel) Benjamín Netanyahu de eludir y renegar de sus compromisos se producen bajo la presión de su coalición extremista y terrorista, en un intento de evadir sus responsabilidades ante los mediadores y garantes”.
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Inside the minds of older, left-wing women driving new voting bloc of ‘Resistance Grandmas’ opposing Trump
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FIRST ON FOX: A Trump-aligned political consulting firm set out to investigate the ideological swing of affluent, college-educated white women who were once considered moderate, but have since moved farther to the left, uncovering what researchers describe as a new voting bloc of left-wing women: «Resistance Grandmas.»
«We are so knowledgeable about everything,» one woman said in a Northern Virginia focus group video reviewed by Fox News Digital, referring to herself and the other women who joined the session while slamming President Donald Trump’s «One Big Beautiful Bill.» «When [Trump voters] start being personally impacted, that’s when I’m hopeful that a little bit of something is gonna change.»
«It’s gonna be a catastrophe,» another woman chimed in, as another middle-aged woman added, «However, they will find a way to blame Democrats.»
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a report conducted by the National Public Affairs (NPA), the polling arm of Trump campaign-aligned American Made Media Company, in September, as well as the full two-hour focus group session in northern Virginia that showcased the beliefs of 10 white, liberal, middle-aged, college-educated, upper–middle-class suburban women.
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The women who participated in the focus group were not informed it was conducted by a Trump-aligned polling firm, only told that they were brought in to discuss political topics for a focus group commissioned by another research firm. The researcher leading the focus group told the women at the start of the meeting that she had «no stake» in their comments «one way or the other,» and that the women «could say whatever comes to mind.»
«Pretty much anything is fair game,» the focus group leader told the women.
Fox News Digital is not publishing footage of the video or names of the women, but reviewed extensive footage of the session for the purposes of this article.
Justifying ‘ugly’ racist Virginia sign, using N-word analogy
The focus group was conducted to study how affluent middle-aged and older white women have increasingly shifted to the political left in recent years, and was sparked by a racist sign displayed outside a Northern Virginia school board meeting in August targeting Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears.
«In the year since President Trump’s historic victory, commentators have obsessed over what they call the radicalization of young white men. But a quieter, just as revealing transformation has swept another group once known for moderation and civility: older, affluent white women. This change came into sharp focus last August in Arlington, Virginia,» NPA’s report outlines.
The Virginia gubernatorial cycle is at a fever pitch, with the election just over two weeks away pitting ex-CIA agent and former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger against Republican Earle-Sears. In August, a white woman was spotted holding a Jim Crow-era-reminiscent sign targeting Earle-Sears, who is Black, when the candidate attended a school board meeting.
«Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain,» the sign read, igniting outrage from conservatives and others who called it racist.
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Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears was the subject of a sign condemned by Virginia leaders as offensive and inappropriate. (Winsome Earle-Sears Campaign)
The women in the focus group overwhelmingly characterized the sign as written in poor taste, describing its words as «ugly,» but also justified it by arguing Republicans have «already taken it too far with their trans bans.» Another woman used the N-word while comparing the sign to those of the segregated Jim Crow era of the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries in the American South.
«What’s the best analogy for a trans person not being able to use a particular bathroom in our recent modern history?» one participant asked the group.
Another woman chimed in: «You used to have hotels that said ‘No n—-rs, no Jews, no dogs at these hotels. Is that… I don’t know if that’s the same thing.»
«Like, I don’t think I would feel uncomfortable, and I definitely wouldn’t hold up that sign,» the first woman said in response. «But this person, I think, was just trying to find an appropriate analogy.»
Recent voting history of white women
The NPA report explained that polling data since the 2012 election, which pitted former Democrat President Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney, showed «voting patterns among white voters and women haven’t moved much in a decade.»
The shift to the left, the report argued, is not due to gender or race, but rather income and education.
«In 2012, college graduates leaned Republican, 51-47, while postgraduates favored Democrats 55-42. By 2024, that pattern had flipped and widened: Harris won college grads 53-45 and postgrads 59-38. Non-college voters went the other way. High-school grads and those with some college, once evenly split, gave Trump a 56-43 lead,» the report found.
«Income followed suit. Voters earning under $50,000, once a 60-38 Obama bloc, shifted to a 50-48 Trump edge. Those earning over $100,000 flipped from a 54-44 Romney majority to a 51-47 Harris win,» it continued.
The report took issue with the media asking and diving into explanations on «what ‘broke’ young white men» to move farther to the right and help re-elect Trump in 2024, but argued the question should instead be: «What radicalized rich white women, and whether they even realize it.»
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on July 31, 2025. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)
‘Luxury’ of studying the news
The women in the focus group overwhelmingly presented themselves as arbiters of knowledge, reporting that they have the «luxury» of reading news articles from different outlets, while other voters are more concerned about costs of living and putting food on the table.
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One woman in the group recounted that her cousin living in a Heartland state was a lifelong Democrat who announced ahead of the 2024 election that he was leaning towards voting for Trump, which the woman said made her nearly fall «off my chair.»
The cousin, a male farmer, reported to her that the Biden administration had not helped U.S. farmers.
«He doesn’t know. He’s not paying attention to China’s not buying wheat or soybeans,» the female voter said. «He’s just concerned about his daily life and making enough money to support his family. And so I don’t think they’re paying attention.»
«I think a lot of times people are just very focused on … how it impacts them on that day and not reading The Washington Post or The New York Times or other things that we all have access to and, you know, have the luxury of doing,» she added.
Scene from the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol riot. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Turning in a friend who breached U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
Another woman reported to the group that she turned in her longtime friend after she found out she breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The FBI launched a tip line shortly after Jan. 6, 2021, where people could report those who were «instigating violence in Washington, D.C.»
«She said, ‘We were just walking around,’» the woman in the focus group recounted of the conversation with her friend about Jan. 6. «And I know she slipped. I know she didn’t mean to tell me she was in the Capitol.»
«And I said, ‘It wasn’t a f—ing open house. You weren’t, you weren’t buying the Capitol,’» she continued, as other women in the group remarked, «Wow» and «Good for you.»
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The woman said she has not spoken to her former friend since, and submitted a tip to authorities that she was in the Capitol the day of the protests.
«And then I had that whole inner turmoil of, ‘do I go on that website and say I think that she would’ …. I went back and forth on that for probably two weeks and asked some people. And finally, I just went on and said ‘she was there, and I don’t know what role she had, what it was,’» she said. «‘She was in that building by her own admission.’»
A new report published by a Trump-aligned pollster examined how educated, wealthy white women have move more to the left. (Getty Images)
A more cohesive future
«As the session ended, they voiced a small hope that the country might still find a way back to calm and common purpose. Whether that hope can survive a culture built on outrage is uncertain. But their conversation left one clear lesson. Beneath polls and party lines, the real contest for the nation’s future is over how Americans think, speak, and live with one another,» the report concluded.
The women in the group called on the Democrat Party to find cohesion and to disseminate their message to party leaders across the country in order to win upcoming elections.
«Democrats need to stop primarying for the lesser Republican. So what’s happening is … Democrats are voting between two Republican primary candidates, and they’re voting for the idiot, crazy, right-wing guy so that they don’t have to compete against this actual intelligent person. And that’s where we’re getting these nutcases,» one woman said.
Another woman said the DNC should combat everything Trump says, including when the president pinned blame on radical liberal violence for the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September.
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«I think it comes from the DNC. I think they need to organize. I think they need a cohesive message. I think they need to be vocal every time Trump says something, even about Charlie Kirk. Yes. No one should be killed for what they believe in. A hundred percent. But they are turning him into a martyr,» one woman said.
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Anatomía de un golpe relámpago: cómo robaron joyas invaluables del Louvre de París en apenas siete minutos
El robo perpetrado este domingo en el museo del Louvre no fue obra de la improvisación. Fue una operación meticulosamente planificada que combinó velocidad, precisión y aprovechamiento de vulnerabilidades específicas del recinto. En apenas siete minutos, un grupo de ladrones logró sustraer nueve piezas de las joyas de la corona francesa, dejando un rastro que revela tanto su preparación como su audacia.
Los asaltantes identificaron su oportunidad en la fachada que da al Sena, donde actualmente se realizan trabajos de renovación. Esta zona, habitualmente menos vigilada por estar en obras, se convirtió en el talón de Aquiles del museo más visitado del mundo. Los delincuentes utilizaron un montacargas o plataforma elevadora —el mismo tipo de equipo que se emplea para transportar muebles— para acceder directamente al primer piso, donde se encuentra la Galería de Apolo, que exhibe una selección de las Joyas de la Corona Francesa.
“Claramente era un equipo que había hecho reconocimiento previo”, declaró el ministro del Interior, Laurent Nuñez, en France Inter.
La elección del punto de acceso no fue casual: les permitió llegar directamente a su objetivo sin tener que recorrer las extensas salas del museo.
Una vez en posición, los ladrones emplearon cortadoras de disco —también conocidas como amoladoras angulares— para romper los cristales de protección. Estas herramientas eléctricas, capaces de cortar vidrio reforzado en cuestión de segundos, fueron fundamentales para la rapidez de la operación.
Según las autoridades, el grupo estaba compuesto por al menos tres personas completamente encapuchadas. Dos de ellas ingresaron al museo y ejecutaron el robo, mientras una tercera permaneció como apoyo en el exterior. La división de roles sugiere un nivel de organización propio del crimen organizado, según las autoridades francesas.
Los asaltantes sustrajeron nueve piezas de la colección de joyas de Napoleón y la emperatriz Eugenia, que se exhibían en vitrinas específicas de la Galería de Apolo. Entre los objetos robados se encuentran collares, broches y diademas de valor histórico incalculable.
Una de las piezas —presuntamente la corona de la emperatriz Eugenia— fue encontrada posteriormente en el exterior del museo, rota. Este hallazgo sugiere que en la huida precipitada, los ladrones pudieron haber perdido parte del botín o decidido abandonar piezas que dificultaran su escape.
Significativamente, el diamante Regente, una gema de más de 140 quilates y una de las joyas más valiosas de la colección, no fue sustraído.
Nuñez calificó las piezas robadas como “de valor inestimable”, subrayando que se trata de patrimonio histórico imposible de valorar económicamente.
La fuga fue tan planificada como el robo mismo. Los asaltantes huyeron en un scooter TMax en dirección a la autopista A6, una ruta que les permitiría salir rápidamente de París. La elección de este tipo de vehículo no es fortuita: es maniobrable en el tráfico urbano, puede circular entre carriles y es difícil de seguir en una ciudad congestionada.
Todo el operativo, desde la llegada hasta la huida, ocurrió entre las 9:30 y las 9:40 de la mañana, poco después de la apertura del museo. El momento elegido tampoco fue aleatorio: a esa hora temprana, el número de visitantes es menor y las fuerzas de seguridad aún están en proceso de desplegarse completamente.
El asalto ocurrió a menos de 800 metros de la sede de la policía de París, un detalle que subraya la audacia de los perpetradores. Las autoridades han abierto una investigación por “robo en banda organizada” y la Brigada de Represión del Bandidaje ha tomado el caso.
El Louvre tiene una larga historia de robos e intentos de robo. El más famoso fue en 1911, cuando la Mona Lisa desapareció de su marco, robada por Vincenzo Peruggia, un extrabajador que se escondió dentro del museo y salió con la pintura bajo su abrigo. Fue recuperada dos años después en Florencia, un episodio que ayudó a hacer del retrato de Leonardo da Vinci la obra de arte más conocida del mundo.
En 1983, dos piezas de armadura de la era del Renacimiento fueron robadas del Louvre y solo recuperadas casi cuatro décadas después. La colección del museo también carga con el legado de los saqueos de la era napoleónica, que continúan generando debates sobre restitución hoy en día.
El Louvre alberga más de 33.000 obras que abarcan antigüedades, escultura y pintura, desde Mesopotamia, Egipto y el mundo clásico hasta maestros europeos. Sus principales atracciones incluyen la Mona Lisa, así como la Venus de Milo y la Victoria Alada de Samotracia.
El museo puede atraer hasta 30.000 visitantes al día.
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