Dramatic video shows the moment thieves at the Louvre broke into plinths protecting priceless jewels during a heist on Sunday.A hooded man wearing a high-visibility jacket is seen meddling with a large display case at the famed art museum in camera-phone footage.

Thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris — the world's most visited museum — early Sunday morning. Museum officials said they stole jewelry and fled.

It took seven minutes for thieves to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre museum. Here's how they did it

French authorities are investigating after a robbery at the Louvre museum in Paris saw a group of thieves get away with "priceless" jewellery on moped this morning. Large numbers of tourists who wanted to see the Mona Lisa had their plans thwarted, after the Louvre said it would stay closed for "exceptional reasons".

The crew of chainsaw-wielding thieves who brazenly robbed The Louvre of priceless jewels in the highest-profile museum theft in living memory may have been hired by a collector, officials said. Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said authorities are investigating whether the heist was commissioned by a collector.

Paris' iconic Louvre Museum was forced to shut down on Sunday, October 19, after a group of chainsaw-wielding robbers made off with millions of dollars of priceless jewelry. A group of four suspects were reportedly wearing masks and hoods when they entered the most-visited museum in the world on

Thieves broke into the Louvre museum in Paris and stole priceless jewelry in a seven-minute heist using disc cutters before escaping on motorbikes.

Video shows one of the suspected Louvre jewel thieves brazenly cutting through a glass case using a mini chainsaw before making off with the loot during Sunday’s heist at the Paris

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.