The blacklist continues: a new burglary has hit a museum in France, the Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder (Bas-Rhin). Sunday July 5 around 5:30 a.m., hooded individuals entered the Alsatian establishment by breaking the door, and took away jewels from the master glassmaker whose value, still uncertain, should reach several million euros. A police investigation is underway.
The criminals had time to carry out their operation without interruption, the gendarmerie having only been alerted an hour later by a maintenance worker who arrived first on the scene. The police were only able to observe the damage – six broken windows, around twenty pieces of stolen jewelry – while waiting to examine the video surveillance images. However, the museum is equipped with a security system which should have allowed a quicker intervention.
The Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder (Alsace).
Dismayed, the mayor of Wingen-sur-Moder and vice-president of the Christian Dorschner museum, denounced a “big hole in the racket” on a daily regional basis Latest news from Alsace. Beyond the high financial value of the loot, “it’s heritage that has been stolen (…) these are unique pieces that he (René Lalique) had created at the time in a jewelry store in Paris, these are unsaleable pieces”lamented the councilor, suggesting the probability that the jewelry would be disassembled and sold in separate parts, without regard for their heritage value.
The same concern weighed on the Crown jewels stolen from the Louvre last October. Not a week ago, an archaeological treasure was stolen from a museum in Tarn, recalling the damage of the same nature suffered by the Museum of the House of Lights in Langres in October 2025, which itself already followed a robbery at the Museum of President Jacques Chirac in Sarran and a burglary at the Museum of the Desert in Mialet, which occurred the same month.
Established since 2011 in Wingen-sur-Moder, in the north of Alsace, the Lalique Museum traces the entire career of René Lalique, from his Art Nouveau jewelry to his creations in glass and then in crystal. Labeled Museum of France, the establishment preserves several hundred pieces and recalls the industrial roots of the designer in this glass valley, where his factory is still active.
