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Jewels worth more than $100 million were stolen from Paris’s Louvre Museum in a daring daylight heist, French prosecutors said Tuesday, as the museum’s director prepares to face lawmakers over mounting security concerns.

The theft, which lasted just seven minutes on Sunday, saw four suspects break into the museum’s Apollo Gallery using a truck-mounted ladder and cutting tools before fleeing on scooters. Among the stolen items were eight priceless royal jewels, including an emerald-and-diamond necklace gifted by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise and a diamond-studded diadem that once belonged to Empress Eugénie.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the loss was valued at 88 million euros ($102 million), but called the greater damage “a loss to France’s historical

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