They’ve cased a few joints in their criminal careers. Even swallowed diamonds and done time.

So what do former jewelry thieves make of the brazen heist that the entire world can’t stop talking about?

Could they have pulled it off? Was it a criminal stroke of genius or sheer luck resulting from a museum’s master class in incompetence?

Some gave their, ahem, professional insight into last Sunday’s break-in at the Louvre in Paris, where intruders breached a second-floor window of the world’s most-visited museum and got away with more than $100 million in royal jewels and crown diamonds.

In no more than seven minutes. Take that, “Ocean’s Eleven.”

“I know the adrenaline rush,” said Larry Lawton, who served more than 11 years in federal prison for a string of jewelry store robberies on the

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