Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.

Thieves entered the Louvre using a basket lift on Sunday and made away with priceless jewels, France's interior minister said, as the museum closed for the day.

A dramatic heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris has left the museum surrounded by police and closed to visitors for at least the day. Early on Sunday morning (October 19) a group…

Interior minister describes it as a ‘major robbery’ involving ‘jewels that have genuine heritage value’