Ariel Weil, mayor of central Paris, says it's obvious to him that the Louvre museum’s security system did in fact fail during Sunday's crown jewel heist. But that’s contrary to what the French culture minister,

No security cameras were monitoring the second-floor balcony where thieves gained access to the Louvre to steal historic jewels worth over $100 million, the museum’s director told a French Senate committee hearing.

The Paris prosecutor says that crown jewels stolen in a Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to F

The Louvre Museum opened its doors at 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning in Paris -- the first time it has welcomed the public since Sunday's robbery.

Reformed heist expert Larry Lawton netted an estimated $18 million in precious gemstones during a spate of robberies in the 1980s and ’90s.

PARIS (AP) — The director of the Louvre Museum on Wednesday acknowledged a ″terrible failure″ at the Paris monument after a stunning daylight crown jewel heist at the world’s most-visited museum, and said she offered to resign but it was refused.

"After many times trying to get to the Louvre, we finally got here today, in the morning, and guess what happened?" Eileen Sotomora said in a video she recorded Sunday inside the museum. "We are now being evacuated from the Louvre.

Thieves used a stolen truck-mounted moving lift to scale the Louvre and steal royal jewels worth over $100 million in a lightning-fast Paris heist.