PARIS —

A theft occurred at the Louvre on Sunday, France’s culture minister said, as the museum closed for the day while authorities investigate.

“A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on X.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called it a “major robbery.” He said on France Inter that individuals “entered from the outside using a basket lift,” stole jewels of “inestimable value,” and that the operation “lasted seven minutes.”

It was “manifestly a team that had done scouting,” he said, adding that the panes were cut “with a disc cutter.”

The Louvre said it would close “for exceptional reasons,” offering no further details on the heist. No injuries were reported.

Dati said she was on site and that an investigation was underway.

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