PARIS -- Thieves made off with jewelry of "incalculable" value in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France's interior minister.

The heist unfolded around 9:30 a.m. Laurent Nuñez, the interior minister, told France Inter radio that the thieves had used a lift mechanism on a truck to break into the Galerie d'Apollon, a first-floor wing of the museum that houses a collection that includes the French crown jewels.

The thieves breached a window with an angle grinder, broke into two display cases and fled on motor scooters with their loot within just seven minutes, according to Nuñez. He did not specify what exactly had been stolen, but said the jewelry had "patrimonial" and "historical" value that made it "priceless."

"It's a major robbery," Nuñe

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