Documentary video footage of the film robbery at the Louvre Museum was released on Wednesday. This is the first time where we see real footage of the ‘heist of the century’, with the Louvre robbers making off with the priceless jewels.

In the video, the robbers leave the Museum wing using the lifting device that was mounted on a truck, and then escape on a two-wheeler.

The robbers who succeeded and grabbed the jewels, worth 88 million euros, from the Louvre museum last Sunday remain missing.

The president and director of the museum Laurence de Carrespeaking publicly for the first time since the robbery on Sunday, acknowledged the significant gaps in the museum’s security, telling French senators that closed circuit television around the perimeter of the Louvre they were weak and “outdated”.

The only camera monitoring the exterior wall of the Louvre where they broke into was facing away from the first-floor balcony that led to the Apollo Gallery where the jewels were housed, he said.