The Louvre Museum in Paris transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France on Friday amid continued uproar over an audacious $102 million heist. The yet-to-be-identified robbers had waltzed out of the museum in broad daylight with eight dazzling pieces from the Napoleon and Empress collection last week — exposing massive security lapses in the world’s most visited museum. Hope of a recovery has gradually dwindled with investigators now analysing DNA samples and fingerprints on tools and other items found at the scene.

According to French radio RTL, several precious items were transferred from the Apollo gallery on Friday under a secret police escort. Details remain sparse but publicly available details confirm that this collection also includes the French crown jewels.

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