About 100 investigators are now involved in the police hunt for the gems and heist suspects​, said prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation.

The director of the Louvre Wednesday said a diamond- and emerald-studded crown dropped by thieves this weekend as they fled the museum with imperial jewels could be restored. The 19th-century crown once belonging to Empress Eugenie,

Questions abound about how four thieves were able to make off with priceless, Napoleonic-era jewels — in broad daylight

IT took just seven minutes for a chainsaw-wielding gang to scale the side of the Louvre and steal tens of millions worth of jewellery. A top team of 60 investigators are yet to track down any of

Three masked thieves carried out the robbery in the Apollon Gallery on the museum's second floor, which overlooks the River Seine and is currently under construction.

Thieves on Sunday broke into the Louvre using a furniture lift to access the first floor, cut into display cases and seized eight pieces including a diamond encrusted brooch that belonged to Napoleon III’s wife Empress Eugénie,