Paris: The world's most famous Louvre Museum in France was expecting around 30,000 visitors, unaware of the fact that four minutes of Sunday morning were enough to lodge another incident of robbery in its notorious history.

It was nothing less than a filmy scene when an unknown number of thieves on scooters carrying chainsaws broke into the prominent Apollo Gallery and walked away with the jewellery collection of "Napoleon and the Empress."

The brazen daylight heist took place on Sunday morning when thieves made away with priceless jewels, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed, calling it a "major robbery." Nuñez said the thieves "entered from the outside using a basket lift," and stole jewels of "inestimable value" in the heist.

Following the incident, the museum was clos

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