Louvre heist: Video appears to show alleged thieves escaping

Thieves stole €88m worth of French crown jewels in broad daylight on Sunday morning.

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Two people can be seen looking around frantically as they slowly descend, minutes after the famed Paris museum was broken into and €88m-worth (£77m) of France's crown jewels were stolen.

The gang of four thieves have not been caught and on Wednesday, the Louvre's boss admitted that staff had failed to spot them early enough because there was only one camera pointing on the gallery where the items were displayed.

In the video, the truck fitted with the ladder is seen parked by on a busy road running along the Seine as vehicles pass.

Laurence des Cars told French lawmakers that the Louvre planned to double the number of CCTV cameras in and around the museum.