Stolen Louvre Jewels Reportedly Worth $102 Million

The Paris prosecutor leading the investigation says that crown jewels stolen in a Louvre heist were worth an estimated $102 million, but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation, said about 100 investigators are now involved in the police hunt for the suspects and gems after Sunday’s theft. She said in an interview with broadcaster RTL that the “wrongdoers who took these gems won’t earn 88 million euros if they had the very bad idea of disassembling these jewels." She says authorities hope the culprits "won’t destroy these jewels without rhyme or reason.″