New video shows the moment some of the Louvre thieves made their escape after breaking into the Apollo Gallery and stealing more than $100 million of France’s crown jewels. The museum’s director was grilled by French senators on Wednesday where she admitted “a terrible failure” to keep the historic jewels safe and blaming a lapse in the security system.

From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

Commodity thieves generally don’t worry about leaving some valuable pieces behind. The Louvre robbers tried to steal a crown that had belonged to Empress Eugénie, featuring eight gold eagles, 1,354 diamonds, 1,136 rose-cut diamonds and 56 emeralds. But they abandoned it in their haste to leave.

The spectacular heist of jewellery has many people wondering what might happen to the items that were stolen from the museum

Dominique Buffin, the head of security at the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, is facing calls to resign as the hunt continues for the gang of four thieves who carried out what's been dubbed the 'heist of the decade'.

The latest incident involved a break-in at the House of Enlightenment, Denis Diderot, where almost 2,000 gold and silver coins were taken.

France is reeling from a wave of audacious cultural heists. Following the shocking daylight robbery of the Louvre's crown jewels, thieves stole 2,000 gold and silver coins from a museum in Landres. These incidents,

The director of the Louvre Museum on Wednesday acknowledged a ″terrible failure″ at the Paris monument after a stunning daylight crown jewel heist at the world's most-visited museum, and said she offered to resign but it was refused.