They would have taken their own photos, but the jewels were stolen so they couldn't.

"Why do you think these are the stolen items?"
"Well, for one, I just took these pictures in my cellar of stolen jewels..."

I'll keep an eye out for them.

Maybe they're hoping that, by posting the wrong figure, they'll compel the thieves to correct them, thereby revealing themselves.

6 or 7 minutes you say? I’m sorry. I’ll see myself out.

On jobs like these, they already have a buyer.

When the French Blue was stolen after the revolution, it was recut and probably became the Hope Diamond.

If they can't find a buyer, they'll melt it down and recut any gems that are too recognizable. Easy money, if you know the right people.

They think they'll dismantle and melt them and try to fence the stones (stones, especially famous ones are pretty worthless). They should get about 200 k€ for the lot if they're lucky. At least according to art specialists debating on news channels.

Float a line to the Saudi Royal family Jared Kushner, they’d buy them no shame at all

Maybe not so unusual. I was at a museum in Germany on vacation a few months before I saw in the news there was a jewel heist there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Green_Vault_burglary

{Dr House barges in} "It's never lupu...sorry, what did you say?”

It fits

You're assuming they don't have a customer yet.

Just give them to some local children to play with.

As an aside, am I the only one who always thought Alfred was kinda a piece of shit for that story? Like a lot of Batman stuff hasn't aged well, but even when I first watched that movie, going scorched earth for a jewel thief was fucked up.

Some people want to watch the world burn. Alfred actually did set their world on fire and watched it burn.

Melt it down, problem solved

Noo, possibly couldn't, they're the good guys now

I love how my brain immediately pictured a jewel encrusted royal chastity belt despite nothing in your comment saying anything to suggest that

We are in the "telling the public what evidence they have will alert the perps" phase, only wild media speculation until the investigators are done doing their thing.

I look forward to Internet Historian doing one of his stock image gilliamation videos about this.