French authorities are continuing to investigate a shocking daytime robbery at the Louvre in Paris, where officials say four thieves used a truck-mounted basket lift and power tools to make off with priceless crown jewels from the world’s most-visited museum on Sunday.

The thieves who robbed Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday made off with eight priceless objects, with a ninth that they tried to steal recovered at the scene, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.

The whole raid took just seven minutes and was thought to have been carried out by an experienced team, possibly "foreigners", said Mr Nunez.