The Louvre jewellery heist, where $157 million of artefacts were stolen in a brazen daylight robbery, may have been an inside job, according to detectives.

Last weekend , thieves broke into the world-famous museum in Paris, and stole priceless jewels after using a freight lift to break into a second-storey window.

The raid lasted just four minutes, with the thieves then making their escape on motorcycles.

It's a heist that experts say would have required 'military style precision' , and sources close to investigators in Paris believe the plotters may have had help from someone on the inside.

According to The Telegraph , the gang was given information about the Louvre's security system ahead of the raid.

"There is digital forensic evidence that shows there was co-operati

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