PARIS (AP) — Thieves entered the Louvre from the outside using a basket lift on Sunday and made away with priceless jewels, France’s interior minister said, as the museum closed for the day.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called it a “major robbery.” He said on France Inter that individuals “entered from the outside using a basket lift,” stole jewels of “inestimable value,” and that the operation “lasted seven minutes.”

It was “manifestly a team that had done scouting,” he said, adding that the panes were cut “with a disc cutter.”

The Louvre said it would close “for exceptional reasons,” offering no further details on the heist. No injuries were reported.

Video from the scene showed chaotic crowds of tourists as police closed the museum’s gates and nearby roads leading past the palace

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