{"id":282473,"date":"2025-12-01T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=282473"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:16:57","slug":"one-of-my-favourite-stories-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/12\/01\/one-of-my-favourite-stories-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my favourite stories of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you didn’t see the image at the top of this post, it appeared on the photo wires and in many newspapers and other media outlets following the brazen robbery of the Louvre in Paris, where a group of thieves stole jewellery and other artifacts worth about $100 million (some of the thieves have since been caught<\/a>). But the theft itself isn’t my favourite part of this story \u2014 not even the part where the password the Louvre allegedly used for their video surveillance system was the word “password.” The photo instantly went viral because of the extremely dapper individual in the fedora and vest with the umbrella — “please let this be the French detective assigned to the case,” said one post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best part was when the dapper chap’s real identity was revealed<\/a> a few days later: his name is Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, and he is a 15-year-old who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km from\u00a0Paris. He is a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and just likes dressing up in that kind of outfit, especially when he is going out to visit places like the Louvre. He just happened to be walking by the police cordon when a photographer snapped that shot. It’s just so perfect, so serendipitous. And he sounds like a terrific young man — he says \u201cI like to be chic \u2014 I go to school like this.\u201d But not with the fedora, that’s reserved for weekends, holidays and museum visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you didn’t see the image at the top of this post, it appeared on the photo wires and in many newspapers and other media outlets following the brazen robbery of the Louvre in Paris, where a group of thieves stole jewellery and other artifacts worth about $100 million (some of the thieves have since … <\/p>\n

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