A Maine State Music Theatre group that visited the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday recounted what they witnessed during a theft of crown jewels.

The 65-person group was just a few feet away from the Apollo gallery where the thieves used a bucket lift and a circular saw to break through the window.

The Maine State Theatre Group was waiting to enter a room next to the gallery that was robbed, and left when the military arrived, a director said.

Visitors were asked to leave Paris Louvre after reports of a robbery at the museum. Video Credit: Monica Louvre Museum Guided Tour/ @LouvreGuide via X

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects.

(WMTW) - Paris’s Louvre museum is now closed after a major robbery of priceless jewelry and according to our Portland media partner, 29 Mainers saw it unfold. France’s interior minister told radio station France Inter the suspects stole jewelry from the room that houses the french crown jewels.

Police say four men disguised as construction workers broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris in a daylight heist and stole "priceless" pieces of France’s crown jewels.