France's Heist of the Century

22/10/2025 43 min
France's Heist of the Century

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Episode Synopsis

The Louvre reopening for the first time since Sunday’s heist of the century. We’ll follow leads in a daylight robbery now estimated at 88 million euros and check security at the world’s most visited museum. For now, the shuttering on the getaway window looks as tenuous as the standing of under-pressure authorities... the president of the Louvre answering earlier to a French senate panel. Beyond security lapses, is the 800-year old fortress-turned-palace-turned museum simply too big to deal with the age of overtourism and shrinking public funding? And after the 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, it's another cherished landmark making world news for all the wrong reasons. How much can a jewelry caper fuel the general feeling by citizens that they’re being ripped off by elected leaders who don’t deliver?   Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Ilayda Habip and Daniel Whittington

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