Masked thieves steal “priceless” jewels from the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in a daring daylight robbery, forcing the museum’s sudden closure Sunday.

Learn more about the crime that took place on October 19, 2025 and about the priceless artifacts that are now missing.

Two traces of DNA were found in one of the helmets and one of the gloves suspects left behind after a jewelry heist at the Louvre on Sunday, French police told ABC News.

The Louvre robbers may have smuggled stolen jewels by shoving them in their bodies back door, according to America’s most infamous jewel thief Larry Lawton. Larry shared his two cents after four thieves stole $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum on Sunday,

From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

French investigators continued to search for eight stolen items after unidentified thieves carried out a daring daytime heist at the Louvre.

The rising water level of the Seine has resulted in the Musée du Louvre closing the lower level of its department of Islamic Arts until Sunday (28 January) as a “preventive measure” from flood damage, according to a spokeswoman for the museum.

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