It only took seven minutes for thieves in Paris to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre museum on Sunday morning, coming away with jewels of “inestimable value” that had once belonged to Napoleon and his empresses.

The Louvre, which is the most visited museum in the world with 8.7 million visitors in 2024 alone, was closed for the day as police investigated how intruders entered the museum at around 9:30 a.m. by forcing open a window, and escaped the scene on motorbikes. The closure was “a security measure and to preserve traces and clues for the investigation,” it said in a statement.

The Parisian Public Prosecutor's Office said it had opened an investigation into suspected "organised theft and criminal conspiracy to commit a crime".

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