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Among the curious details of the spectacular robbery at the Louvre Museum, which took place last Sunday, one figure has made the rounds of the world: a man with an umbrella, fedora hat, dark coat and beige vest, photographed a few hours after the event at the crime scene.
His upright posture, old-fashioned elegance, and contrast with the two tired policemen leaning on the patrol car immediately made his figure iconic.
Journalist Melissa Chen, a contributor to the British magazine The Spectator, published the photo on the "X" platform, introducing him as "a French detective investigating the stolen jewelry case."
A flood of memes and jokes about the “typical French detective” erupted on social media, with references to the classic film “Inspector Clouseau.” Chen himself wrote with irony: “ A real photo (not created by artificial intelligence!) of a French detective working on a jewelry case. He looks like he’s smoking a cigarette, even though he has nothing in his hand. But to solve the case, we need a tired, divorced, hated by his colleagues investigator, not someone who wears a fedora hat without any irony .”
The post went viral, with millions of views and thousands of reactions. Users began searching for the identity of the "mystery man", comically speculating that it could be "Alain Delon or Jean-Paul Belmondo resurrected".
But on Thursday, the mystery was over. Thibault Camus, an Associated Press photographer and the author of the image, clarified that the man was not a detective, nor a well-known figure: “I don’t know him, I don’t know if he’s French. Maybe a tourist. Maybe English. He was just a passerby.”
So, neither a secret agent nor a film investigator, just a man who stopped in the wrong place, at the right moment.
But as is often the case in the internet age, a hat and a unique attitude are enough to create a legend.
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