Exclusive | Infamous jewel thief slams Louvre robbers as 'idiots' — and reveals shocking way they could have smuggled gems out of Paris

Loot in the booty?

The thieves who fleeced $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum may have hidden the precious pieces up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France.

That eye-popping hypothesis was made by America’s most infamous jewelry thief, Larry Lawton, who spoke with The Post about the headline-grabbing heist.

“I hope they had enough money to literally lie low and get out of the country,” Lawton, 64, said of the four thieves who pulled off the audacious — if somewhat haphazard — Paris robbery over the weekend. 7

Lawton looted 25 jewelry stores across America’s East Coast during the 1980s and ’90s, netting a total haul estimated at $18 million. He often zip-tied terrified store owners and customers during the daytime raids. 7

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