Overview
- The teen, from Rambouillet outside Paris, named himself in an Associated Press interview as Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
- He says he was at the Louvre with family, found it closed after a jewelry heist on October 20, and had no connection to the crime.
- AP photographer Thibault Camus captured the scene minutes after the closure while documenting police outside the museum.
- The picture’s vintage-meets-modern contrast drove online theories ranging from amateur sleuth to AI fabrication until relatives recognized his mother in the background.
- He cites Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot as influences, wears the look to school and on outings, and jokes that he would welcome film opportunities.