The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopened to the public on Wednesday after a jewellery heist prompted a three-day closure.

During the robbery, a band of thieves broke into the French capital’s iconic museum and stole eight items of jewellery containing precious jewels from the Napoleonic era on October 19. The robbers are still at large, and the jewels have not been found.

Here is what we know so far about where the jewellery could be, whether it can be traced, and whether the robbers will be found.

What was stolen from the Louvre?

At 9:30am (07:30 GMT), a group of robbers used a truck-mounted ladder to reach the gilded Galerie d’Apollon (Apollo’s Gallery) on the second floor of the museum before taking an angle grinder to a window to access the French crown jewels. The heist to

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