The Louvre has reopened its doors to visitors three days after a spectacular daytime robbery .

The reopening of Paris’s most famous museum on Wednesday comes hours before its director is set to face a grilling by French senators to explain how thieves made off with an estimated 88 million euros ($102m) in jewels from the site.

The heist has renewed scrutiny of security measures in French museums after two were affected by thefts last month.

A number of investigators are looking for the culprits, working on the theory that it was an organised crime group that clambered up a ladder to break into the museum.

The thieves made off with eight pieces, including an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his wife, Empress Marie-Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to Empress E

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