He Walked Out of the Louvre With the Mona Lisa. Nobody Stopped Him

On August 21, 1911, a former Louvre glazier named Vincenzo Peruggia walked into the museum in a white work smock, lifted the Mona Lisa off the wall, and walked out. The theft was not noticed until the next morning. The painting stayed hidden for two years, until a single letter to an antiques dealer in Florence gave him away. In this video we go through the full case file: the empty wall, the police hunt that wrongly pulled in Apollinaire and Picasso, the two years in a trunk, the hotel room in Florence, the trial, and the one twist nobody has ever proven. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:23 The case of the Mona Lisa 0:26 The Louvre in 1911 1:06 The thief 1:30 The theft 2:11 The discovery 2:41 The hunt 3:15 Two years in a trunk 3:35 Florence 4:15 The trial 4:49 The return 5:20 The Valfierno question SOURCES Wikipedia, Vincenzo Peruggia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenz... Wikipedia, Mona Lisa (theft section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa Images: Wikimedia Commons (public domain / CC0), full credit per image shown on screen. Details differ between sources (arrest date, sentence length). Where they do, this video follows Wikipedia. The Valfierno story is unverified and presented as such. Narration is AI-generated. New case file every week. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. #monalisa #truecrime #louvre #arttheft #coldcase