Photographer captures stylish passerby at Louvre investigation scene, creating internet sensation as authorities playfully keep the man's identity secret.

The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France after a spectacular daylight heist exposed woeful flaws in museum's security. On Friday a secret police escort oversaw the transfer of some of the remaining jewels to the Bank, 500m (about 500 yards ) from the museum, French media report.

German businessman Alexander Böcker was reading the news with his wife when she told him about a robbery at the Louvre in Paris. They soon saw an opportunity.

Veteran detectives who have worked on similar cases said French investigators have a lot of evidence to work with in the Louvre jewel heist.

A photo taken by an Associated Press photographer after the brazen daylight robbery at Paris' Louvre Museum is generating an online buzz.

A German company inadvertently embroiled in the Louvre Museum heist after one of its lifts was used in the theft is making the most of its free publicity - by launching a new advertising campaign.

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.

George Clooney's tipping his cap to the robbers who shook down the Lourve in Paris ... showing respect from one professional thief to another.