Dominic Selwood
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436 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Dominic Selwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and continued down the staircase.
Finding the exit barred by a locked door, he removed the doorknob with a screwdriver.
It still didn't work, so he enlisted the help of a plumber who opened it for him with a key and some pliers.
He then exited the building, got onto a bus, and took it home.
At the Louvre, nobody noticed anything on that Monday.
On the Tuesday morning when the museum reopened, the artist Louis Beyroux visited the room where the Mona Lisa was to sketch it.
When he saw it wasn't there, he assumed it had been taken away to be photographed.
And it was only at 11am in the morning that he went and found somebody and made inquiries to ask where it was.
As the museum hunted round to try and find it, they eventually realised that it had been stolen.
At that, panic erupted and the museum closed again to the public, possibly for as much as a week.
Once the Louvre publicly announced the theft, it made front page news globally.
This was a huge story.
Something had been stolen from the Louvre, which was already a world-famous museum.
And it elevated the Mona Lisa, which had been admired as a Renaissance painting, to suddenly, overnight, becoming one of the most famous painted images in the world.
Perugia knew that this wasn't a painting that he could take and show publicly, so he played the long game with it.
He kept it in his flat for two years in a trunk with a false bottom and occasionally he took it out and propped it up on his kitchen table and enjoyed looking at it.
The police conducted extensive investigations and they arrested a great number of people.
One of them was the poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
He had been connected to a man who had previously stolen a collection of statuettes from the museum, so seemed a likely person to bring in.
Apollinaire in fact named his good friend Pablo Picasso, who still had some of the stolen statuettes in his studio.
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