'Heist made it more exciting to go to the Louvre': Tourists react as museum reopens

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Visitors have returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris, which reopened on Wednesday three days after millions of euros worth of jewellery stolen in broad daylight.

The Louvre's Apollo Gallery - where the heist took place - remained closed.

The BBC spoke to tourists outside the Paris museum, who were eager to see where the heist took place.

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'Heist made it more exciting to go to the Louvre': Tourists react as museum reopens

Police attacked at protest outside asylum seeker hotel

Nuns escape fire at historic Italian monastery

Could a Corrie cameo be on the cards for Daniel O'Donnell?

Watch: Protesters attempt to storm Georgia's presidential palace

Cars swept away in Bulgaria floods

Celebrations in Luxembourg as new Grand Duke sworn in

O'Connor family were 'very well known' and 'respected'

Torrential weather hits Valencia region year after deadly floods

'Hundreds' of drones and missiles fired at Ukraine by Russia

Watch: Polar bears occupy abandoned Soviet-era research station

Watch: Moment freediver sets new world record with breath-defying 126m plunge

Belarus and Russia stage joint military drills

'Looks like a toy, but it's real': BBC examines a downed Russian drone

Inside Kyiv government building hit by missile strike

Watch: BBC at the scene of Ukrainian government building strike

'The hit was very hard': Eyewitness in second carriage shares video of crash moment

Watch: BBC correspondent at scene of Lisbon funicular crash

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BBC reports from scene of deadly Russian attack on Kyiv

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