The masked gang, who remain at large, made off with nine items, including a crown, a tiara, necklaces and earrings.

The objects taken were France’s royal jewels, formerly belonging to the Empress Eugénie, Napoleon III’s wife and arts patron

NBC Boston spoke to an art theft expert who is also the director of security and chief investigator at the Gardner Museum about the logistics of this heist at the Louvre and what the thieves might be planning to do with the crown jewels. The plot was carried out just 30 minutes after the Louvre opened on Sunday morning.

Thieves used a truck-mounted furniture elevator to reach the gallery housing the artifacts at the Paris museum and then sped away on motorcycles, officials say.

The brazen heist of crown jewels from the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, has been decried by some as a national humiliation and sparked security checks across France's multitude of cultural sites.

He was arrested a year later, while robbing an apartment, and sentenced to eight years in prison, along with being fined €104m (£90.3m). But the paintings have never been recovered. In 2023, Vjeran appeared in a Netflix documentary in which he went through the heist in detail.

PARIS and LONDON -- Several people disguised as construction workers broke into the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, cracking open display cases and stealing jewelry that once belonged to Emperor Napoleon and his wife, officials said.

The Lourvre museum was hit by a brazen daytime jewel heist, forcing the Paris institution to close its doors for a second day in a row.

How thieves pulled off the extraordinary theft of priceless jewels from the world-famous museum in broad daylight.