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Thieves Like Us: The Greatest Art Heist of the 21st Century

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Some people are born for a certain vocation. Mozart, for music. Shakespeare, for drama. Steven Hawking, for physics, and...let's say...Machine Gun Kelly? for rap music. Vjeran Tomic was born for the steal—as comfortable scaling the side of a tightly-guarded museum as a leopard is, stalking through the jungle. He says he’s in it for the love of art—a modern-day Robin Hood. But we seem to remember something about Robin Hood giving the money away…hmm.

Sources:
The New Yorker, Jake Halpern: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-french-burglar-who-pulled-off-his-generations-biggest-art-heist
The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/arts/design/vjeran-tomic-paris-spiderman-sentenced-to-8-years-for-art-heist.html
The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-spiderman-art-heist-and-the-five-missing-masterpieces

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:10.8

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0:15.6

Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the True Crime Campfire,

0:19.7

wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.

0:23.2

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction,

0:27.0

or roasting murderers and marshmallows around the True Crime Campfire.

0:38.6

Some people are born for a certain vocation,

0:42.1

Mozart for music, Shakespeare for drama, Stephen Hawking for physics,

0:48.3

and a machine gun Kelly for rap music.

0:53.0

Viren Tomic was born for the steel, as comfortable scaling the side of a tightly-guarded museum

1:00.4

as a leopard is stalking through the jungle. He says he's in it for the love of art,

1:05.8

a modern day Robin Hood, but we seem to remember something about Robin Hood giving the money away?

1:12.2

Hmm, this is thieves like us, the greatest art heist of the 21st century.

1:23.2

So campers, for this one, we're in Paris. That, by the way, is Paris, France,

1:39.1

city of lights, and not Paris, Kentucky, city of light and bugs, just so we're clear.

1:44.4

In the crisp early hours of May 20th, 2010, a tall, athletic man in a hoodie

1:49.6

walked calmly along a beautiful tree-lined street beside the river Sin.

1:53.8

We're right at the heart of Paris here, with the Eiffel Tower just as stones

1:57.4

throw away on the other side of the river, and the Louvre within Walking Distance.

2:01.4

But it was another museum in this city of cultural treasures that the man in the hoodie was

2:05.7

heading for, the Musee d'Armordère de Paris, the Paris Museum of Modern Art.

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