It took seven minutes for thieves to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre museum. Here's how they did it

French prosecutors are hopeful about catching the thieves behind last weekend's spectacular break-in at the Louvre museum in Paris, after investigators recovered more than 150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other clues at the scene of the heist.

The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France after an audacious daylight heist last week exposed the famed museum's security vulnerability.

Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.