A cherry-picker, a hole cut through glass, and a smash-and-grab raid on the French crown jewels ending in a frantic escape by scooter.

Thieves have stolen priceless jewels from the Louvre using a basket lift, according to France's interior minister

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday denounced the spectacular theft of jewellery from the Louvre Museum in Paris as an attack on France's cultural history. "The theft from the Louvre is an attack on a cultural asset that we value because it is part of our history,

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects.

Thieves allegedly staged a heist in Paris at the Louvre Museum, targeting priceless jewelry displays, the interior minister said.