Overview
- The figure in the widely shared image is Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old from Rambouillet who has now identified himself publicly.
- AP photographer Thibault Camus captured him walking past a cordoned Louvre entrance on October 19 as police secured the area after the jewel theft.
- Delvaux says he was visiting with his mother and grandfather and did not know a robbery had occurred when the photo was taken.
- The picture drew millions of views and fueled theories that he was a sleuth, an insider or even AI-generated; he stayed silent for several days, then made his Instagram public and spoke to reporters.
- He regularly wears a 1940s-inspired look influenced by Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, while investigators continue to probe the Louvre heist of roughly $102 million in jewels with several suspects charged and most items still missing.