Thieves steal Bronze Age artefacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

In October 2025, thieves broke into the Louvre museum in Paris in broad daylight, stealing jewellery worth $102m (£75m) before escaping on scooters, in a heist that took about eight minutes.

Thieves have stolen jewellery and artefacts from one of the most important prehistoric gold collections at a museum in the Spanish province of Alicante.

Bowls and jewels taken from the Villena museum on Thursday The operation at Villena Museum was "super fast and super professional", a spokesman for Villena town council said.