India, Oct. 20 -- Thieves in balaclavas barged into Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday.

They used a crane to break an upstairs window, "then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes, officials were quoted by news agency Reuters.

The robbery points towards awkward questions about security at the museum, "where officials had already sounded the alarm about lack of investment at a world-famous site, home to artworks such as the Mona Lisa, that welcomed 8.7 million visitors in 2024."

"The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our History," President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X. "We will recover the works, and the perpetrators will b...