German businessman Alexander Böcker was reading the news with his wife when she told him about a robbery at the Louvre in Paris. They soon saw an opportunity.

George Clooney weighed in on the real-life heist at Paris' Louvre museum while speaking with reporters at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Jay Kelly.' "I mean, they seem to have done a pretty good job of getting away with it,

French prosecutors are hopeful about catching the thieves behind last weekend's spectacular break-in at the Louvre museum in Paris, after investigators recovered more than 150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other clues at the scene of the heist.

Master jeweler Stephen Portier said the Louvre robbers might recut the stolen gems, which would significantly decrease their value.

A viral video from Paris shows two thieves making a cinematic escape from the Louvre with €88 million worth of crown jewels. The 36-second clip captures them fleeing on scooters after a daylight raid lasting less than seven minutes.

This special report details a brazen jewel heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where thieves stole items of immense historical significance linked to figures like Napoleon I and Empress Eugenie. According to Paris prosecutors,

In total, thieves stole about €88 million worth of jewels on Sunday, including a necklace Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Marie-Louise of Austria, the tiara, necklace and earrings of Queen Hortense, and a diadem, diamond bow brooch and reliquary brooch that once belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

The manufacturer posted a picture of the lift cordoned off by police tape at the side of the Paris landmark with the tagline "when you need to move fast".