00:00The world's most popular art museum, the Louvre, became the scene of a brazen robbery when a trio
00:05of thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry in under 10 minutes, right in front of
00:09stunned visitors and staff. Here's everything we know about the daytime heist. On Sunday,
00:14October 19th at 9.30am, just a half hour after the museum opened its doors, a three-person gang
00:19of thieves arrived at the tourist attraction on scooters. They then used a basket lift to get up
00:24to a second floor window, using mini gas-powered chainsaws to break into the building. Footage
00:29shows one of the criminals cutting through a glass jewelry case with a concrete saw as horrified
00:34visitors watched on. The theft took place just 270 yards from the Mona Lisa and saw nine of France's
00:41most valuable pieces of jewelry snatched. By 9.40am, the two robbers had left the building through the
00:46same window, got to the ground using a spider lift, and met up with a third crook who was there
00:51waiting. At this point, they all got onto scooters and fled, although in their rush to escape, they
00:56left behind several key pieces of evidence, according to French authorities. One of the
01:00stolen objects, an emerald set imperial crown containing more than 1,300 diamonds that once
01:06belonged to Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugenie, was found broken outside the museum,
01:11La Parisienne reported. The crooks made off with a treasure trove of royal jewels, from a diamond
01:16and sapphire tiara of Queen Maria Amalia to sapphire emerald sets tied to Napoleon's wives.
01:22They also took tiaras, a reliquary brooch, and a bodice knot that once belonged to Empress Eugenie.
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