A daring daylight robbery at Paris’s Louvre Museum saw four masked thieves armed with angle grinders and a truck-mounted basket lift break into the Apollo Gallery and escape with eight priceless pieces of French crown jewellery—valued at about €88 million ($102 m). The raid lasted just around seven minutes and exposed major security gaps at the world’s most visited museum. While authorities hunt the suspects, the question looms: how could such an audacious theft happen in broad daylight at one of the globe’s landmark institutions?

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