The Louvre Museum in Paris remained closed on Monday as police continue to investigate a brazen daylight heist that lasted less than eight minutes in total a day earlier inside the world’s most visited museum.

On Sunday, thieves rode a basket lift (or cherry picker) up the Louvre’s facade and smashed an upstairs window and display cases before fleeing with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.

The heist took place about 30 minutes after the museum opened, with visitors already inside, and unfolded just 250 metres from the Mona Lisa.

Here’s everything we know so far about one of the highest-profile museum thefts as a manhunt for the perpetrators is underway in Paris.

How it happened

At around 9:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, masked thieves used an electric ladder and grinders

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