It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers,

From brands and influencers to a viral "Inspector Clouseau," the world's most glamorous theft is also quickly becoming one of the year's most profitable memes.

A shocking new update has come to light in the £76 million Louvre jewel heist.Investigators now believe that the daring robbery, which saw a group of thieves steal historic crown jewels may have been an inside job.

The investigative team searching for the robbers behind the Louvre heist is very large. Laure Beccuau, a Paris prosecutor in the office leading the investigation, told The Associated Press that around 100 investigators were involved in the police hunt for the jewels and the culprits.

As theories flooded social media in the days following the robbery, one photo of a man began making its rounds online. The image, taken by Paris-based photographer Thibault Camus for the Associated Press, shows three policemen standing in front of a squad car in the museum’s courtyard.

Matt Bomer insists that he 'had nothing to do' with the heist that stole priceless jewels from the Louvre — but his 'White Collar' costars disagree.

Boecker's AgiLo furniture lift was used in last weekend's jewel heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and the German company's social media post went viral.

The same day masked thieves stole millions in crown jewels from the Louvre, another French museum was robbed of 2,000 gold and silver coins.

The Louvre in Paris reopened on Wednesday, three days after thieves made off with historic jewellery worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) in a spectacular heist that has raised urgent questions over security lapses at the museum.

Robert Boyce, the retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, said the genetic evidence obtained in the Louvre case can also be run through the DNA database of Interpol, the world's largest international police organization headquartered in Lyon, France.