Overview

• Authorities say three or four masked suspects used a truck‑mounted platform and a freight elevator, smashed display cases with cutting tools, and fled on scooters in about seven minutes around 9:30 a.m.
• France’s Culture Ministry reports that eight jewels remain missing, with a ninth item—the crown of Empress Eugénie—recovered nearby and under examination for damage.
• The Louvre was closed for “exceptional reasons” to preserve evidence; no injuries were reported and no arrests had been announced by late Sunday.
• Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said a recovered object brings the total targeted to nine and confirmed the Regent diamond in the same gallery was not taken.
• Specialist police units are leading the probe and conducting a detailed inventory, while the high‑profile theft intensifies scrutiny of museum security following other recent cultural property crimes in France.