PARIS — Days after thieves took just minutes to steal eight pieces of the French crown jewels from the Louvre, a former bank robber says he warned a museum official of glaring weaknesses — including jewel cases by streetside windows that were “a piece of cake” to attack.

A liberal Maryland Supreme Court justice is in the hot seat over a politically charged Halloween display on his lawn that an expert said casts doubt on his ability to rule impartially.

A wave of arrests resulted in five more suspects being caught in the stunning daylight theft of priceless crown jewels from the world’s largest and most visited museum, the Louvre in Paris.Authorities confirmed Thursday,

France will not be reimbursed for the theft of the priceless items stolen from the Louvre in an audacious heist.

Five more people were arrested overnight in the Louvre crown-jewels heist — including a man identified by DNA as one of the suspected robbers — the Paris prosecutor said Thursday, signaling an accelerating dragnet across the French capital and its suburbs.

More than a week after thieves made off with treasures from the Louvre, a picture is emerging of a seemingly well-planned burglary that exploited security lapses at the museum and outpaced the police.

The man was convicted in April for his role in defacing the display case for an Edgar Degas sculpture at the museum in Washington, D.C.

Video shows one of the suspected Louvre jewel thieves brazenly cutting through a glass case using a mini chainsaw before making off with the loot during Sunday’s heist at the Paris