Louvre's $100 million crown jewels still missing one year after daring heist

One year after a stunning break-in at the Louvre Museum, the four main suspects are in jail awaiting trial, but police appear to have run out of leads to locate the stolen crown jewels. Thieves disguised as workmen sliced their way into the museum with industrial disc-cutters on October 19 last year before making off with eight irreplaceable items worth an estimated $100 million. They include a brooch and crown from Napoleon III's wife Eugenie. President Emmanuel Macron referred to the robbery as an attack on France's history. Experts from law enforcement and private art theft agencies who spoke to AFP believe the best chance of recovering the treasures is if the thieves acted alone and stashed their loot somewhere in the Paris region. "There was a short period of time where they may have hidden them in a wall or buried them," Christopher Marinello from Art Recovery International, a private agency, told AFP. All four men were arrested within 10 days of the heist. Read moreLouvre boss warns of closure risk unless museum is 'repaired, updated and transformed' Interrogation The last known sighting of the glittering 19th-century gems was on CCTV footage recorded in an underground lock-...