Stop clutching your pearls
At least lock them up and don't leave them by an an unsecured window. All that demolition equipment set up by a bank or museum and not even an eyebrow raised.
The French jewels will turn up sooner or later undoubtedly. They will inevitably be shown or traded and "authorities" will track them down.

Vance suggested the latter course. Responding to newly published vile text messages from Republican officials and staff, he pointed to violent texts from Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones. ¶“I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” Vance said.
"Pearl clutching" creates a red-light district of police officers with "excessive jewelry" in a certain sense. The Bible itself condemns those stereotypical behaviors of Jews which are the most despicable and abominable. The Jews went to prison in Babylon, where Hammurabi punished two eyes for an eye and five teeth for a tooth because he felt Moses was soft on crime. The Babylonians were very strict with the due process of law and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, whereas the Jews were always presumptuous of a defendant's guilt in court. Let's not fool ourselves.
Cops aren't supposed to conduct arrests or searches without a valid warrant, and they are not to be trusted with large sums of money unaccounted-for either.