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New footage has emerged showing the thieves who stole $100 million worth of jewels from the Louvre making a slow getaway in broad daylight in front of French peopleThe video shows two men — one wearing a neon vest and another in a motorcycle helmet — in the basket of a lift, slowly lowering to the ground from the world-famous museum in Paris, where they successfully pulled off the 7-minute heist. They appear in no rush, calmly reaching the ground on a construction lift attached to a stolen truck. Once they reached the ground, the men disappeared from view before police said they escaped on motorised scooters.The footage has gone viral on social media. It appears to have been filmed from inside the Louvre overlooking the Seine on Sunday, according to the Telegraph.French authorities are hunting four suspects in the robbery, which seems like something out of a Netflix series. The group reportedly parked a stolen truck outside the museum and used a construction lift to reach a second-floor window. They cut through the glass with an angle grinder before entering the Apollo Gallery. The alarm was triggered, but only reached guards focused on visitor safety.Inside the museum, another video shows the thieves casually cutting through a glass case while stunned guests looked on. They tried to set fire to their mobile ladder before fleeing, but failed. Furthermore, the burglars accidentally dropped an emerald-set imperial crown containing more than 1,300 diamonds that belonged to Empress Eugenie.The robbers abandoned the truck and its keys before escaping. A motorcycle helmet and a glove belonging to one of the criminals were recovered, but none of the suspects has been identified so far, authorities told Le Parisien.
