Heist at Louvre Leaves Museum Missing Priceless Jewels - WSJ
Over the course of only seven minutes, three or four individuals used a truck-mounted elevator to reach a balcony outside the Galerie d’Apollon, which houses France’s crown jewels, French officials said. There, the thieves used an angle grinder to cut a hole in a window to get inside, they added.
The thieves smashed display cases, and early indications were that they took Napoleonic jewels and jewels related to French royalty, a police official said. The thieves fled via the roads along the Seine River, the official added.