Good morning, 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. So the world is sort of enamored,

if not mesmerized over this robbery at the Louvre in Paris. Brazen, the thieves were only inside

anywhere from, well, four minutes. The entire robbery took between seven and eight minutes.

It seems like the news media can't agree on whether it was seven minutes or eight minutes.

In any event, the authorities are now saying

that over $100 million in jewels was taken during this brazen robbery. And I think some of the

biggest fears here are that the robbers will break down all of the jewels and not keep them intact.

Because I believe, and most people in law enforcement believe, that these thieves will eventually get caught.

So on Sunday, October 19th, 2025,

the world's most famous museum, the Louvre in Paris,

became the scene of a shocking and audacious robbery.

In just seven minutes, four masked thieves stole historic jewels

valued at nearly $100 million.

Shake in France and the global art community was an act so daring and precise.

It felt like a storyline from a film.

This is the step-by-step story of their unbelievable plan,

the desperate race to catch them,

and the one critical mistake that threatened to unravel

everything. Well, I believe there was more, much more than one mistake during this robbery.

The Louvre is a fortress home to humanity's most cherished treasures and protected by what should be an impenetral security system.

But on that Sunday morning, just 30 minutes after its doors open to the public, its greatest weaknesses was revealed.

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