French police have gathered more than 150 DNA samples and fingerprints in the hunt for the thieves behind a daring daylight raid on the Louvre that saw eight royal jewels worth €88 million stolen.

Thieves used a stolen truck-mounted moving lift to scale the Louvre and steal royal jewels worth over $100 million in a lightning-fast Paris heist.

See the apparent moment suspected thieves escaped the Louvre after stealing jewels worth more than $100 million.

Seven minutes is all it took for thieves to rob the world’s most famous museum Sunday. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how it went down.

If they'd pulled their Louvre heist two centuries ago, the thieves might have tripped over the artist of a painting that hangs in the RISD Museum.