French President Emmanuel Macron called the crime "an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our history," and vowed that "the perpetrators will be brought to justice."

French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

The robbers are suspected to have used a furniture elevator to enter the Louvre Museum.