Louvre thieves caught on video escaping using a cherry picker and bike

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00:00Wait till you see this. New video this morning and a bizarre twist in what's being called

00:07the heist of the century. Surveillance video making the rounds online shows two of the Louvre

00:13thieves making their getaway not on foot, but look, on a cherry picker. One wearing a motorcycle

00:19helmet, the other a yellow construction vest. The pair lower themselves from a broken window,

00:24then take off on a motorcycle into the Paris night. Investigators say the entire operation

00:29took just seven minutes, from the moment they cut through the glass to the moment they vanished.

00:34They got away with eight imperial jewelry pieces worth more than $100 million. The Louvre's director

00:41admits security weaknesses, including a camera, pointed the wrong way, failing to capture the

00:46very window where the thieves got in and out.