Louvre reopens for first time after daring jewel heist

By Agencies and ToI Staff 22 October 2025, 10:34 am

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People queue in the Louvre pyramid courtyard moments before the announcement the museum will remain closed for a second day running after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum in Paris a day earlier, in Paris on October 20, 2025. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

The Louvre museum in Paris reopens, three days after thieves made off with historic royal jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) in a daring daylight robbery.

From 9 a.m. (0700 GMT), the museum’s usual opening time, the first visitors began entering the world-famous institution, though the museum said the Apollo Gallery, where Sunday’s theft occurred, remains closed.

Scores of investigators are looking for the culprits, working on the theory that it was an organized crime group that clambered up a ladder on a truck to break into the museum, then dropped a diamond-studded crown as they fled.