Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cup, Real Crime Stories.

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

You know, this Louvre heist, this Louvre robbery has everyone talking.

It's just, you know, it's one of those crimes of the century.

Brazen, inside job, organized crime.

Were they really that professional?

Everyone's critiquing what they did and how they did it.

But the bottom line is they got away with 88 million euros worth of jewels.

In American terms, over $100 million worth of jewels. It is apparently shaken the French government

and the police and the security errors. You know, one of the things that a lot of Europeans,

they criticize all the time about America, and that's our guns.

But perhaps when you have billions of dollars worth of jewels and artwork,

perhaps your security guards should be armed.

You know, maybe they, but then again, the French police aren't even armed.

So when they talk about security errors, security lapses that enabled these robbers to conduct a brazen daytime robbery.

I believe it started at approximately 9.30 a.m. French time, of course, when they pulled up to the location with this truck here, with that ladder that goes up to the second floor

and brazenly pulled out these tools and started grind these grinders started cutting through

the glass on the windows it wasn't you know pretty it was ugly you know you don't think

the security heard what was going on from the

outside. But they also used a bit of psychology and a bit of cover. They wore construction

desks this. That disarms people. Maybe they're supposed to be here. Maybe they're supposed to be

grinding through the glass on the second story.

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