Brazen jewel heist at the Louvre

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00:00A group of well-trained and really organized thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris

00:05and in a matter of minutes successfully made off with priceless jewels, at least one that

00:12once belonged to Napoleon's wife. This is not a new Ocean's Eleven movie. This actually happened

00:18yesterday, and what is even crazier, it was in broad daylight and the museum was open with

00:24tourists and security and, you know, people in it. The jewel thieves, dressed as construction

00:29workers, used an aerial lift to get up to a window, and then they had portable saws to cut

00:35through the glass of both the window and then the case where the jewels were on display.

00:39They made off with their haul on, are you ready for this, scooters. It's so very French. Now,

00:47it would seem in their haste they may have dropped one item, a crown, believed to belong to Napoleon's

00:52wife, Empress Eugenie, which was discovered damaged outside of the gallery.