A week after thieves stormed the Louvre and ripped eight priceless pieces from France’s crown jewels, the country is nursing a deep cultural wound — even as Paris authorities on Sunday announced arrests tied to the haul.

A worker at the Louvre tipped off the chainsaw-wielding thieves who boosted $100 million worth of France’s crown jewels, according to French detectives, who now believe the daring heist was an inside job.

Investigators believe four people carried out the heist, entering the museum during regular hours dressed as maintenance staff and escaping with the jewels in less than eight minutes. The operation stunned France — not just for its precision,

Police made the arrests as one of the suspects was preparing to take a flight out of France.

Suspects have been arrested on Saturday evening and taken into custody as part of the investigation into the spectacular Louvre museum jewel heist a week earlier that gripped the world and embarrassed the French government.

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,

The Louvre Museum heist was a classic case of German efficiency. That at least is how a German freight lift manufacturer jokingly portrayed it in an ad.

THE heist hit Louvre has transferred jewels to an extra secure vault after the brazen daylight raid highlighted major security flaws. A seven-minute smash-and grab-heist saw a gang of thieves with