A separate post from the social media influencer Ian Miles Cheong, viewed over 90,000 times, reads, “The man in the fedora, who looks like he came out of a detective film noir from the 1940s is an actual French police detective who’s investigating the theft of the Crown Jewels at the Louvre. Pure aesthetic.”

It was, in nearly every way, an ordinary photo distributed by The Associated Press to news media outlets. It showed three policemen leaning against a silver car parked in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris just hours after the brazen theft of a collection of French crown jewels on Sunday.

The theft of French crown jewels overshadowed the robbery of some $100,000 worth of historical coins from a museum dedicated to philosopher Denis Diderot.

Video has emerged appearing to show the alleged thieves behind the Louvre heist making their escape on a mechanical ladder in broad daylight. 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.

In total, thieves stole about €88 million worth of jewels on Sunday, including a necklace Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Marie-Louise of Austria, the tiara, necklace and earrings of Queen Hortense, and a diadem, diamond bow brooch and reliquary brooch that once belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

Fox News senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports from Paris, France on new details in the daring daylight Louvre jewel heist and Interpol’s role in tracking the suspects.

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Four thieves broke into the Louvre on Sunday and made off with famous French jewels in broad daylight. The whole escapade took under five minutes, and the loot is estimated to have a combined value of roughly $102 million. So far, the thieves have not been caught, and the stolen pieces have not been recovered.