Good evening, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

We have a story come out of Paris, a heist at the Louvre.

And at first, all the news reporters were calling this, or they are calling this, a robbery.

And for there to be a robbery, there has to be the threat of force, physical force, the threat of force.

And I wasn't aware initially that they did

threaten the guards with the devices they held that cut through the glass. So they somewhat

looked like guns. So incorrectly, this was deemed a robbery. And you could see some of the

items taken these diamonds and tiaras and literally

hundreds and hundreds of diamonds. And this daytime heist on a Sunday afternoon is just really,

it is almost like a Hollywood thing. You know, and you could see they brought the truck.

They brought their own ladder, their little elevator up to the second floor. So obviously this was well planned out. And

in total, there were four thieves, four thieves that did this daytime robbery of the Louvre

in Paris. And they wore these little construction vests. And, you know,

nothing disarms people more than to believe that someone is just working in their official capacity.

Oh, they're taking a ladder up to the second floor of the Louvre, but they're wearing construction vests.

Oh, that must mean they're legit.

So no one would think of stopping them.

And then when they use these grinders to break the glass and get into the location,

it's just really remarkable.

And you could see there's a little rendition of it, you know, of the Louvre and how they got in.

And again, no one is going to say, oh, these workers came and I'm going to stop them.

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