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 president and director of the Louvre Museum has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the heist of priceless jewels.

French authorities have intensified their hunt for a group of thieves who executed a daring daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum, stealing priceless royal jewels in just seven minutes. The heist, which occurred on Sunday,

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France.

Museum security concerns rise after the latest Louvre robbery, as experts recall other major art thefts, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's still-unsolved heist from 1990.

A minute-by-minute look at the daring Louvre robbery, using maps, photos and video to unravel how one of the world’s most famous museums was breached.