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One of the men arrested on suspicion of stealing €88m (£77m) of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum is a minor social media star with a passion for motorbikes who have worked as a security guard at the Pompidou centre, French media have reported.

A number of people have been arrested over the theft of precious jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris, the city’s prosecutor has said.

The jewellery taken from the Louvre Museum in Paris is estimated to be worth 88 million euros ($102 million), according to a French prosecutor, as the search continues for the stolen treasures.

Multiple masked men broke into the museum on Sunday morning and plucked jewels from display cases during a seven-minute raid.

The Ministry of Culture has disclosed the eight priceless treasures that the chainsaw-wielding robbers took from the Louvre.

The French TV channel BMFTV has published the first footage of the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, which took place on Sunday morning.

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Climate activists from the group 'Riposte Alimentaire' threw canned soup on the glass panel covering Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he would challenge Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer over the 2,500-year-old artefacts on a visit to the UK

Authorities evacuated and closed the the Louvre after receiving a 'written threat' which is thought to have been connected with the French government's decision to put the country on high alert

French police officers have cordoned off the area where the Louvre is located, evacuating tourists and other visitors from the museum, after the government raised the threat alert level and deployed 7,000 extra troops

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Luiza Rozova, known to be Vladimir Putin's secret lovechild has been hiding for over a year, after a Russian researcher claims his protection service have kept her away from the limelight since the war

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The mayor of Amiens in France has asked the American pop superstar to loan back the artwork by Jérôme-Martin Langlois after it was alleged to have disappeared more than a hundred years ago.

There were over 3,270 reviews mentioning pickpockets on the famous Las Ramblas street which is first on many tourists’ checklists