Jewellery theft from the Louvre

THIEVES in the French capital, Paris, used a basket lift to reach the Louvre yesterday morning and, as tourists were already inside, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with jewels of “inestimable value", France's interior minister said.

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The world's most-visited museum closed for the day as police sealed gates and ushered visitors out during an investigation into the brazen, seven-minute strike.

“A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre museum,” France's culture minister, Rachida Dati, wrote on social media.

The museum cited “exceptional reasons" for the closure. No injuries were reported.