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The high-profile heist at the Louvre in Paris on Oct 19, 2025, played out like a scene from a Hollywood movie: a gang of thieves steal an assortment of dazzling royal jewels on display at one of the world’s most famous museums.

French police have gathered more than 150 DNA samples and fingerprints in the hunt for the thieves behind a daring daylight raid on the Louvre that saw eight royal jewels worth €88 million stolen.

Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars has admitted a "terrible failure" after thieves cut through a window and stole jewellery worth nearly €90 million. She said she takes responsibility for weaknesses in security that allowed the gang to strike on Sunday morning.

The Louvre reopened to visitors on Wednesday, three days after thieves pulled off a spectacular jewel heist worth €88 million.

On Sunday, shortly after the Louvre opened, four burglars made away with eight pieces of jewellery once belonging to French royalty, fleeing the museum on scooters. While experts say the priceless items will be impossible to sell in their current condition, questions are also being raised over security failings and…

It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewellery and royal regalia were stolen, in broad daylight and in a matter of minutes, from the Louvre’s gilded Gallery of Apollo in Paris. The theft of these items from one of the world’s most…

A daring seven-minute heist at Paris's Louvre Museum left France reeling as thieves escaped with royal jewels worth millions. Experts now fear the priceless loot could vanish forever. Here's what might happen to the stolen treasures.