Overview
- The teenager is Pedro Elías Garzón Delvaux, 15, from Rambouillet, who confirmed his identity after days of online speculation.
- He says he was visiting the museum with his mother and grandfather and was photographed while passing a police cordon, with no link to the robbery.
- The image, shot by AP photographer Thibault Camus during the crown-jewels theft response, drew millions of views and attention from major outlets.
- Social media cast him as a detective, infiltrator, or an AI fabrication, a narrative he allowed to build before making his Instagram public and speaking to AP.
- He describes his three-piece look as a long-standing personal style influenced by early 20th-century figures, with a fedora worn as an homage to Resistance hero Jean Moulin.