PARIS, Jan. 20 -- For the first time, French television broadcast footage of the audacious October robbery at the Louvre Museum, showing thieves breaking into display cases and stealing crown jewels. The images, captured by the museum's surveillance cameras, were aired on TF1 and France Televisions on Sunday evening, three months after the heist.

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The footage shows two suspects, one wearing a black balaclava with a yellow high-visibility jacket, and the other dressed in black with a motorcycle helmet, forcing entry into the Apollo Gallery. Using high-powered disk cutters, they broke through a reinforced window and began slicing into display cases while staff members w...