It was the French Collection.

A trio of slick robbers disguised as construction workers took fewer than 10 minutes to brazenly break into the Louvre Museum in front of visitors and workers Sunday and coolly make off with millions of dollars in priceless gems, French authorities said.

Here’s how the sensational, lightening-quick heist went down.

Scooters and chainsaws

At 9:30 a.m., just half an hour after the famed art museum opened, the gang of three thieves arrived at the central Paris tourist attraction on scooters. 11

They then used a basket lift to get up to a second-floor window and wielded mini gas-powered chainsaws to break in, Le Parisien reported .

The masked and hooded crooks had placed the basket lift at the museum themselves and “threatened the guards who were pr

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