A series of images and a video from the Louvre Museum heist have surfaced online, showing how thieves carried out a brazen, broad daylight robbery at one of the most secure museums in the world.

The footage, filmed inside the Apollo Gallery, shows a man dressed in a construction vest and helmet smashing open a glass display case with a power tool. Around him, visitors were seen walking, unaware that a robbery was unfolding right beside them.

The heist took place on Sunday, October 19, at around 9:30 am, shortly after the museum opened for the public.

The robbers used a crane to reach and smash an upstairs window of the museum's Galerie d'Apollon, the section that displays France's royal jewels, according to the BBC.

Once inside, they broke open glass cases and stole several priceless i

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