Thieves made off with priceless Napoleonic jewels during a daring daylight robbery at Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday. Footage obtained by CNN shows a crane with an extended ladder, an angle grinder, a blowtorch and other equipment used to break into the world-famous museum. The Louvre remained closed on Monday as police hunted for the suspects. The robbery was carried out by four thieves who positioned a vehicle-mounted extendable ladder against the south side of the Louvre at around 9.30am, half an hour after the museum opened. Two of them used an angle grinder and other power tools to enter the Apollo gallery, home to France’s historic collection of crown jewels. The gang smashed glass displays and stole jewellery in a meticulously planned operation. Officials said the the

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