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A massive police presence was seen in Paris in the wake of a daylight heist at the world-famous Louvre museum on Sunday morning, October 19. According to a https://x.com/MuseeLouvre/status/1979953900279984344 press release from the Ministry of Culture, shared by the museum, individuals broke into the https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/sun-gold-and-diamonds Apollo Gallery , stealing https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cambriolage-au-louvre-voici-le-detail-des-huit-bijoux-voles-19-10-2025-EPQS7O2NXFG5VHTLXD2AHEXXAU.php eight items from the royal collection of gems and the Crown Diamonds. Five agents, presents in adjacent spaces, responded rapidly to the 'particularly rapid and brutal' break-in, after security alarms located inside and outside the gallery were triggered, the Ministry said. In an interview to national media https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-info-de-france-inter/l-info-de-france-inter-5902534 France Inter , Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 'three of four' perpetrators entered the museum through a window before fleeing on a scooter. 'It took seven minutes,' Nunez said. 'It was a major robbery. Clearly a team that had done some scouting.' French President Emmanuel Macron https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1979972585094807626 said the perpetrators would be brought to justice. 'The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our history,' Macron said. 'Everything is being done, everywhere' to retrieve the stolen items and arrest the culprits. No one was injured in the heist, the Ministry of Culture https://x.com/MuseeLouvre/status/1979953900279984344 said . The Louvre was closed for the remainder of Sunday as an investigation was launched, with dozens of officers on scene and tape and barricades positioned to keep the public away. (Footage by Anonymous/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)