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Hello, Elizabeth. How are you? I'm doing well just hanging out with the interns in here. We're just having like a cuddle puddle of puppies in me. Fun. Yeah How HR I'll make sure to tell them . Do you know what's ridiculous? I do. Okay . So my hero, Willie Nelson, my favorite living philosopher, is ninety three years old. He just turned ninety three on april twenty ninth nineteen thirty three. And I found a story I'd never heard about him. And I've read his autobiographies. I have multiple of his books that are not autobiographical, but have some autobiographical sketches. You've interviewed him. I've interviewed him, hung out on his tour bus, and like we had a great time . He's he stalled his show so that he and I could finish our conversation and smoke a joy. Yeah. But fantastic guy. Like hit it off. It's great when you actually meet a hero and they exceed your expectations and you already had high expectations . Anyway, so this story is about him and Dennis Hopper. Okay. Now, Dennis Hopper was hanging out in Taus, New Mexico because that's where he'd shot part of Easy Rider. And he started living there basically part time in the seventies. And apparently he got a little sideways Dennis Hopper stylea in the seventies . And I'll just let Dennis Oper tell the story . Quote, I hadn't got a clue how Willie knew I was in jail in Taos. At the time, I couldn't imagine how Willie Nelson even knew who I was. In Taos, I'd gotten real drunk and proceeded to win a lot of acid in a poker game. So I swallowed the acid and I saw a weird dangerous shit going on . Man, and I pulled my pistol out of my boot and I shot up the plaza and I was rant in' and rain in the jail. People were out to get me, man. And here came the sheriff saying Willie Nelson had come and paid my bail and was waiting outside. I was free to go with him, man. I freaked Willie Nelson, come on man, who do you think you're kidding? You're gonna lure me out and yell jailbreak and blow my ass away. But I thought, hey, be cool. You are after all hallucinating all of this. So I walked out of jail and I got into Willie's Mercedes with him and his wife Connie and his golf pro , Larry Trader. We drove across the desert towards Las Vegas. Willie and Trader and I nearly drove Connie crazy man with our laughing and shoutin' Connie is an angel, but we were too much. And at one point Connie said, I'm gonna stop the car. Either you guys get out or I'll get out. Who do you think has the best chance of hitching a ride in the middle of the desert? There you go. Wow. Right. And the top bet hunter is Thompson. And you want a Las Vegas story. There it is. Great. I love that Willie's traveling with his golf. Golf Pro. Amazing.. He loves golf He's full of surprises that guy. Is that ridiculous? That is a hundred percent ridiculous. There you go. Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? I'm here for you. Classic heists and mystery Fedoras This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about abs urd and outrageous capers, hey sang cons , it's always ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. Damn right . I am always damn right. I have a real quirker for you today. Yeah All timer. Yeah. See, a while back, you told us about the time someone stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum of Arts in Paris. Yes, they did. Audacious. Totally. No one's all coming. Yeah, and it's sort of what put the Mona Lisa on the map. Yeah, that's why it became valuable world famous. But people were already familiar with the Louvre. Yeah, of course. The Louvre is perhaps the most famous museum in the world. Hands down. And I think the biggest. Yeah, well, did you know there were nine million visitors in twenty twenty five? I did not know that. They run something like thirty k, thirty thousand people a day consistently through the year. And you've been there, right? Yes. It's like, you cannot see even a tenth of it in one day. No, not at all. You gotta be like running through just days and divide it up. Yeah. But so it didn't start out as a museum in eleven ninety language, King Philippe II had a castle built inside the Paris city walls. Yes. And it was like basically this defensive military installation . The purpose was to stop the Viking attacks that you love this part. I love this part. They're coming up on the Seine . And they also, they needed a place to store like the Royal Treasury and the Archives 'cause Philippe was off on the crusades all the time. That's right. Let's keep everything saf e . Mid thirteen hundreds, we've jumped forward to there. King Charles V, Charles Sonck , he had it turned into a fancy palace. Yeah . And so God are the battlements, income, the gardens, the spir al staircases, and then it also it had one of the biggest private libraries in Europe at the time. Like forty books? Illuminated manuscripts for days . Yeah, with like forty books Charles eventually died, as we all do , and the royal court moved elsewhere. And then in the early fifteenth century, Henry V of England, he crashed there for a while . But then he moved on. You know who moved in? No. Wolves . What? Yeah, there was like a pack of wolves that moved in and which is Roman in the center of Paris. Yeah, yeah, why not? In fifteen forty six, Francois I took over. Okay He kicked the wolves out and he had the old structures demolished. Boo . So he built this new modern palace in its place, like modern for ty six . Francois was also the king who brought Leonardo da Vinci to France in fifteen sixteen. And it's his work, The Mona Lisa . That's the big star at the current. Yes . So Francois , he got all sorts of Italian Renaissance works added to the Royal Collection and he basically set the stage for everything to come with the Louvre. It was him. Yeah. So the Mona Lisa entered into the French royal collection around fifteen eighteen. That early. Yeah. And it stayed in royal possession until the revolution made it public property. Oh, right, yes. Yes. So over the years the Louvre expanded, it developed out . Louis XV hit the scene, and this is kind of funny because you did on Tuesday a French story Louis XV cycles have once again sinked. I don't know how we do that. I really don't because we have no idea what the other is going to talk about. Not until the mics show up. There you go. So it's France Week, France week . So okay, Louis XVIII, he shows up but he moves everything to Versailles.. Yeah And once again, the Louvre falls into disrepair . So post revolution, there's this call to create a public gallery that would be open to all citizens . On the tenth of august, seventeen ninety three , the revolutionary government opened the Muse Saintro des in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre . And so the inaugural collection was made up of five hundred and thirty seven paintings and then one hundred eighty and four other objects , most of it from like confiscated royal aristocratic and church property . Admission was free . And then Napoleon Bonaparte, he transforms it more dramatically than any ruler since Francois I . He renamed it the Muse Napoleon for starters . You know, throw your name on it. eleven narcissist. And he started buying up art like a drunk cast member of the Real Housewives buys up designer handbags. Okay. I don't even know if that's true, but what I believe you? Let's say they do. That was horrible. Anyway, so French armies, they're working their way through Italy , Spain, as you said, Egypt , Netherlands, Prussia, Austria . And like as they'd swoop in, they would grab up all the valuable art they could find shipping to Paris. And at its peak, the collection had around like five thousand confiscated works. It was the largest art collection ever assembled under one roof at that time. The largest art heist of at one time. Yes. So Napoleon's defeated exiled eighteen fifteen. The Allied powers compelled France to return the majority of the looted works majority. Give us back our story to their countries of origin . And then in the nineteenth century, we see the Louvre grow through like purchase, excavation, and then what we'll gently call colonial acquisition AKA looting. Yes. So they do that. On the eve of World War two , the curator orchestrated one of the most remarkable logistics operations in museum history. The lock it down mode. Yeah. Over three days in August of nineteen thirty nine, the entire collection, that's three thousand six almost three thousand seven hundred paintings, hundreds of sculptures , secretly evacuated by truck to chateau across France . Mona Lisa made five separate moves during the war. They kept moving that lady around. That's why Herman Guring never got his hands on it. That's right. Not a single major work was captured or destroyed by the German occupation. It sounded like they weren't trying. That's very true. nineteen eighty one , president Francois Meteron Meteron . He launched the Grand Louvre as one of his grand travellers, this like great public works projects that would put architectural monuments all across Paris. Gotcha . And so he gets the Chinese American architect Yoming Pei for this project . And so his proposal, this like huge glass and steel pyram coming up from the center of Le Cour Napoleon above a vast underground entrance hall was controversial. Yeah. Because you know like the French like to keep it French? Yeah, and it's not, it's like a glass pyramid in the center of the plaza. Exactly. And it's inverted 'cause like there's a whole empty pyramid underneath. Yeah. So the public was like, you are desecrating a national . I try to do that. Meeter on unbothered. He's like, whatever , you guys just don't have vision. You love to complain. So the structure was inaugurated on march twenty ninth, nineteen eighty nine . The underground hall Napoleon opened the public entrance to all three wings simultaneously. And so visitor flow just was transformed overnight . The Richelieu wing was opened to the public in nineteen ninety three and that was like the final piece. The whole project was completed. It's crazy go past the excavated castle. It's like beautiful. Yeah. So the museum now there are eight curatorial departments across three wings , they display more than thirty five thousand works across about sixty thousand square meters of exhibition space. And the permanent collection is estimated to come in at over five hundred fifty thousand objects , most of them in storage. So you have this massive trove of priceless works of art in antiquity . So I mean, it should come as no surprise that it's the target of thieves, both in film and real life. And there's the Mona Lisa theft you told us about. But there have been others such as nineteen seventy six, the museum got hit. The crooks used this metal scaffold to reach the museum's second floor. They climbed. Oh right. The scaffolding, they smashed a window, then they broke into some cases, and they stole the diamond studded sword used in the coronation of King Charles II in eighteen twenty four. That case unsolved. Who doesn't want a diamond studded sword? No one ever found no one I do . No one ever found the sword . I know missing who doesn't want to you can move that thing so easily? Everybody . So authorities are pretty sure it was taken apart and everything melts it down. What? Yeah . The gems could be anywhere. The gems could be absolutely anywhere. In fact, one of them could be in that handsome diamond and pearl statement necklace you're wearing right now, Zarin. Well, thank you for noticing. It could be from the sword. July nineteen ninety six Thieves cut a small painting, Renoir's portrait of a seated woman. From its frame, stole it in broad daylight from a third floor gallery. Damn. Bold . And it should be noted that like july nineteen ninety was a particularly bad year for thefts of Iressmpionist works. There were three paintings stolen from different French museums on the same day. Same day. Yeah. Which do you think they were coordinated? Probably. Okay . So the Renoir theft triggered an inventory that. inv Andentory showed that a dozen pieces of ancient Roman jewelry had also been taken sometime before them . And so yeah, the Louvre director of the time called it a quote crisis. Like, oh, you don't say . And so he said that the crisis would be used to increase museum security measures. He wanted to raise the budget by about one point eight million dollars . He wanted to hire a quote super specialist to recommend policy changes . And as to the loot, that painting and the Roman jewelry never recovered. They don't recover much . They really don't. I'm really hoping that the painting turns up on BBC's faker fortune soon. Oh, right, your new favorite show and Philip, they would be beside themselves. Yeah. I'm gonna check it. You keep telling me this great. Maybe they call in our buddy Bendor and the flying squad, who knows? Girl can dream. Okay, but so when I say Louvre heist to you today in twenty twenty six, yes, I'm guessing one thing comes to mind. French fries ? Yes. Let's talk about the history of French rise . I'm talking about that incredible twenty twenty five hike. Of course, the most recent, the audacious Yeah, the most so we were positively flooded with messages, DMs about it when it happened. Yeah. Rude dudes were losing their minds and we were losing our minds. And the rude dudes kept asking us, tell the story, tell the story, but we had to wait a little to see it play out a little . And I think the time is right. How do you? It hasn't fully resolved itself, but it's pretty darn toot and close. Yeah, the French judicial system will take its time, I think. Yes, it will. So let's start by talking security at the Louvre. Please. So the museum, they did security audits twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Wait, three different ones? Yeah . And all of them determined that the Louvre was not in any way able to fend off clever thieves. I want a new audit. Yeah. Nope still the case. They were like, it's going to take us eight years of upgrades to get the place secure. You'd have to build a new castle . As of twenty twenty four , only thirty nine percent of the rooms in the m useum had CCTV cameras. That seems odd. And that's just the start of the problem. It's not like those things are expensive these days. No, it gets a couple ring cams, a blank cam, I don't know. Put 'em in there. So a new museum director came in , Laurence Descartes and she came on board in twenty twenty one . No one ever told her about the findings of the audits. What? How? How is that not the first thing? Like hey by the way, everything you're supposed to protect is not able to be protected ? Yeah, according to the New York Times, quote, the sad irony is that the process for beefing up security had begun and several companies had put forward bids to do the work just four days before the thieves rolled up . Oh . So like she doesn't know like the depth of it with the audits, but she knows like, oh god, we got to tighten this up. Walking around, she's like, there are no bars with me . She resigned earlier this year by the way. Right, I saw that headline. So it's important to note the vibe in the run up to the twenty twenty five Heist which happened on october nineteenth , twenty twenty five. So starting in September of that year last year , there were a cluster of burglaries at French museums and they all followed similar patterns. They targeted something other than paintings and sculptures . They went after stuff like jewelry coins or like things with high historical value. Okay . There was the hit on the National Adrian de Bochet Museum in Limoge . These made off with three Chinese porcelain objects, like dishes in a vase, worth about nine point five million euro. Yeah. These were classified as national treasures. I can see why. Then a crew hit the Natural History Museum in Paris. They used a blow torch and a grinder to steal raw gold nuggets. Oh, so you see like a stegosaurus? No, I wish. I mean, as long as you're in there, grab one . And so this was just a few metro stops away from the Louvre, mind you. All right. A few days after the heist, according to Reuters, quote, prosecutors said they had charged a Chinese born woman over the theft of six gold nuggets worth about one point five million euros from the Museum of Natural History in Paris, she was arrested in Barcelona while trying to dispose of some melted gold. Trying to sell or dispose of Throw it in the river. I don't know. I hate when that happens when I'm in Barcelona. Like I get busted, trying to get rid, trying to dispose of gold again Ack . Okay, so the house of Enlightenment and Laund that was broken into and thieves stole two thousand gold and silver coins. two thousand . So the museum opens the next day and the workers are like, Oh, that display case is smashed . And apparently the coins were selected with quote great expertise . A statement to French media from the local authority said. So the stolen coins dated from seventeen ninety to eighteen forty. They were part of the city's private collection. They'd been discovered in twenty eleven during renovation work at the building that now houses the museum. So they'd already been lost and they got discovered. Well, yeah, they were like buried in the collection somewhere. It was like Zoex like, oh, we should put these out. So just a few days before the Louvre , four men broke into the Jacques Charac Museum in Saram . The first incident was october twelfth , twenty twenty five. Snappy suits? This was straight up armed robbery during open hours. Oh, really? They came in, shotguns, knives . It' likes clavas late morning . They hit the like the gift shop exactly the gift. Empty the cash register. Yeah, they just took all the cash registers. So they just wanted money. Okay, fine. But then the next night same museum gets hit again. This time undercover of darkness by pros this time. They broke in and stole more than a million euros worth of watches and jewelry. And it was all stuff that like dignitaries had given Chirac while he was president of France. Okay, so like we're talking like Rolexes and there are like five thousand diplomatic gifts in this museum that he got. He's like, look at my swag. Yeah, check all this out. Gift bags galore. And so yeah, it was probably like a role and like some other stuff. I don't know some who knows a challenge coin . So anyway, it's the research section of Lemog and the Central Office for the Fight Against Trafficking and Cultural Property , they kicked off an investigation, they worked quickly. And so even though the thieves escaped that night, they were arrested just a couple days later. So whether the crimes across all these museums are connected remains unclear, or maybe the French just had heist fever. Do you know who has heist fever? It's not me, is it? It's this gal me. Yes. I can see it in the room. It's me. Let's take a break and when we come back, I'm going to tell you about the main event. 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They showed up to the museum with a vehicle mounted mechanical ladder . Like that's some serious business . Vehicle mounted mechanical ladder. So it's like an extension ladder about top of a van. Well, yeah, the thing is it's sort of like a common sight in Paris because stairways and buildings are often narrow and if people are moving furniture in , they can't carry it up. I'm sure they have a lot of these. Yeah, movers need to use these ladders to move things in through the window. So it wasn't out of place. No . And it's like a very common construction site. Yeah. And so to add to the blending in , they put construction cones up . So probably just look like a crew moving some big piece of art into or out of the museum. Here's a fun fact though about the ladder. The company that made the ladder was this German place called Bucker Machine Werk . And when word of the heights got out, they just like didn't miss a beat. According to the Associated Press, quote, It didn't take long for the Germans to seize on the marketing opportunity. By Monday morning, Baker's company had come up with a social media post featuring a photo of the freight lift, which is typically used for furniture and construction and a slogan in German that translates to When something needs to be done quickly . The post also touts the ability of the Balker Ageillo to transport up to four hundred kilograms, that's eight hundred and eighty two pounds of quote your treasures at a speed of forty two meters or forty six yards per minute, and it moves quote whisper quiet thanks to its two hundred thirty and volt ot e mor, the post says. Who says the Germans aren't funny? You know? You know ? And so here they are. Okay, so they've got this lift . Two of them got on it to get up to a balcony that sort of overlooked the River South. And from there they got into the gallery da Pollon , the gallery of Apollo. Oh, not the gallery of chicken. Yeah That's Pulle. Okay, there it is. Yeah. Okay, so the thieves, right? They use grinders to get in a window. Metal grinders? Yeah, good. Oh , like they were gonna steal a catalytic converter, but instead they got in the window. Things were smart. And this, of course, set off an alarm , but they were on a ro ll at this point . So they ran into the gallery of Apollo headed right for the glittery goods. And they were after the collection of royal jewels and crown diamonds sitting in display cases throughout the gallery . So this room, the Apollo gallery, is said to be one of the fanciest , most ornate rooms in the whole place . It's gilded up the wisoo. Massive baroque paintings on like these high domed ceilings , incredibly detailed and over the top molding. Here's what author Henry James had to say about it. Quote, Dee Henry James? Dee Henry James? Quote, The wondrous gallery da Polon drawn out for me as a long but assured initiation and seeming to form with its supreme coved ceiling, an inordinately shining parquet , a prodigious tube or tunnel through which I inhaled little by little, that is again and again , a general sense of glory . The glory meant ever so many things at once, not only beauty and art and supreme design, but history and fame and power , the world in fine raised to the richest and noblest expression. Henry. I really need to point out here that Henry James wrote that in eighteen fifty six when he was thirteen years old . Are you kidding me? No, but thirteen years. Your kid is special. thirteen. Yeah, thirteen. Yeah , back when people had literate society. Yes , yes . So for all the gold and polished wood , isn't that crazy? And like gleaming light, there was one thing missing. The windows were in no way reinforced . And you know, as we heard, they're very accessible from a second floor balcony. Yes, there were three audits that proves . So we got two thieves inside now armed with power tools, and that was enough to scare the guards because apparent ly the guards who are unarmed, they're unarmed. They're so freaked out when they see these guys running at them with power tools that they ran away . What are they being paid for? Well, they're not really doing a whole lot to counter the stereotype of the surrendering French guys . So it was now which is just it's a bad stereotype true. They kicked a lot of butt for many centuries . So it was now nine thirty four AM.K So this is like four minutes. Four minutes. Yeah . When the authorities, they watched the CCTV footage of the heist , they calculated that it took them four minutes to get in, get the loot, and get out. They knew exactly what they were doing , where they were going, what they wanted. Here's what they wanted. What did they want Elizabeth? Thank you. According to France's Ministry of Culture, here are the stolen items. Tiara and brooch belonging to Empress Eugenie , okay, wife of Napoleon III . An emerald necklace and a pair of emerald earrings from Empress Marie Louise . Oh wow. A tiara necklace and single earring from the sapphire set that belonged to Queen Marie Amelie and Queen Hortense and then a brooch known as the Reliquary Brooch. The Reliquary Sure. According to the BBC, between them, these pieces are adorned with thousands of diamond s and other precious gemstones, thousands of diamonds. So they're just gonna pop all those out and exactly make a necklace for you. Yeah, that's how you know. They did forget one thing. One of them dropped Empress Eugenie's crown. What? Yeah. You dropped the tiara? Yeah, it was a straight up crown, bro. It 's like spotted fur and stuff. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was found. How did you drop that? I don't know. It was found on their escape route. It was all bent bashed up from being dropped . It was a real fine baby doll of a crown. I call it back because I went to an auction once and the auctioneer kept referring to things as a real fine baby doll. Real fine baby doll. Yeah, like a quilt or a rifle? We got us a real fine baby doll here. What? I don't know, but I love that. Don't want any act. Intricate crown. Yes. one thousand three hundred fifty four diamonds. Woah. fifty six emeralds. Soft gold, crushed underfoot. Underfoot. So the thieves, they jump back out the window , climbed down the ladder, took off with the other two members of the height crew on like scooters, mopeds. Are they waiting on the ground floor and scooters? Yeah, like zoom zooms. Yeah, they had them all set up. Seven minutes total. You're never finding them in paradise. No, it would have been a little faster, but the remaining crew members tried to set the ladder truck on fire but they couldn't get it to light. And then a museum staffer stumbled upon them and it was like, Hey, knock that off. Yeah, a lot of people think that you can just light gasoline on fire. You gotta light it. It doesn't work . And it's a whole thing. Yeah, exactly. Throw matches it puddles of gasoline. Nothing happened. He just puts the match up. I know. It was sad for you. I know . So in a scene like something right out of a movie , the four crooks raced along the banks of the Sene ga on their motor scooters until they reached this suburb of Evais Sur seen . There jumped into a white citrome van they'd parked. So the four of them they ditch the scooters, hop in the van, take off, and after that, they're just one of like innumerable white work vans cruising around Western Paris. Totally. So just thirty seconds after the scooters took off , cops and security guards were standing in the gallery of Apollo thirty second s after staring at the broken display cases That's a pretty good response . They would have been there earlier but museum staff weren't exactly helpful. I thought they maybe they stopped for espresso. Oh it could be too like a smoking cigarette fresh goal. Well, no, this is this is terrible. So per the New York Times quote, Museum staff gave officers the name of the long, narrow room where the jewelry was held , but didn't specify which end of the gallery to go to. As a result of the staff's mistake, police officers headed to the wrong side of the building and had to turn around when they realized the error. Like the gallery is huge. You got to be specific people. You know, it's like when maybe run with them. There's that, maybe run with them. It's because you had the guards who ram on the eyewitnesses. They know exactly where it was. They were good at running. So I mean , but this is like what I've read about calling nine hundred and eleven . That before you tell them what's the matter, you're supposed to tell them your location. Like first thing you relay, you're like, I'm at whatever your address is and I need an ambulance police or whatever. Sorry because that gets them moving quickly. That's a pro tip, Erin. Thank you. I want you to keep that in your pocket. So there are the cops and the security guards , nine forty five or so in the morning now . They're looking around the wreckage. There's two angle grinders, a blow torch, gasoline gloves , walkie talkie blanket. They love the gloves, huh? Yeah. The crown they draw . I still can't believe that. Like scoop it back up Yeah Outside keep a carbineer on your on your belt and just loop it up I have an apron for when I'm in the garden and I'm harvesting. Right . And it loops up and you just fill it with stuff and it clips. I could walk around with a big old pouch of tomatoes. Weren't they wearing workmen's clothing? They got garden pouches on it. It's very French. When I was a house painter I used to covet the French and the German overalls. Why the greatest work I'm saying? Yeah, come on. Great pockets. Come on , come on, come on. If you're gonna rob they did the loop. They had they found a safety vest like the mesh yellow kind that they someone dropped there. They had warned them to disguise themselves as workers . And I guess, you know, one dropped because they had to like take them off before they got on the scooters. Once again, when I was a housebaner always tell my guys, I was like, look, we would make the best heist team. No one looks at us twice. It's the best act like you know tactic. Leaves for construction or maintenance . And like I've seen videos where guys put on vests in like a hard hat. Yeah. One will have a ladder and the other has a clipboard and they get into all sorts of places that they shouldn't. Just make sure you got worksohes on. That's another pro tip, I want you to keep that in your pocket. So initially, the museum's director said that the thieves had, quote, entered undetected because a key security camera had been facing the wrong way. Oh my god . But then later on down the line, like a couple months after the height, the museum officials had to testify in front of the French Senate . And they had to admit that, yeah, you know, the camer as were actually facing the right way and they were recording. Oh, so they were turned off. We just never look at them. No, see, apparently the problem was that, you know, per the New York Times quote, it took too long up to eight minutes for security guards in the museum's control room to switch to the live feed . By that time, the thieves were already making their getaway. Were they watching Paris thing? Was your mom? Well, what happened was that the security control room in the Louvre has limited screens . They can't broadcast every camera feed simultaneously . And the guards had to manually switch back and forth between various cameras. Okay. So while the guards are on duty that day, they could have been watching the whole thing unfold in real time , but the only things up on their screens were the main entrances . So like was this whole not enough scre ens thing addressed in the security audits? Probably. Three times. All three times. So not only were there not enough screens? Yes , not all of the cameras work. Of course. So the inspector who led the investigation he told French senators of the two cameras near the scene only one was operational , but it was sufficient, despite its poor quality, to allow for preparations for the burglary to be seen. So they could have watched these guys like get up on the balcony with the angled grinder. Yeah, with the one camera they had pointed in the right direction. That was on and they're like should we get the crown? Yeah, get the crown too . So cl osing the gate after the cows had already escaped the gate. They also already had eyewitness guards. Like who were they going to send more scaredy cats? I guess, I don't know . The museum then decided, okay, we're immediately moving our most valuable jewels out of the building. It's a little late They sent them for safekeeping in the Bank of France . I mean, maybe it does make sense because there had been this spate of heist. No, yeah, I have to make double dip.s Right. And there wasn't anywhere near enough time to get security up to snuff. Remember, it's like an eight year project. They put like a piece of wood in the broken out window. I think so. Put a blue tarp and flap in the front. I think it actually probably would have been the perf ect time to strike now that I think dang. You act like you're a cop in another person's construction and you point them out where you want to go. Totally . So now the really expensive stuff is out of public view. 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It's mid morning and you're making coffee and scanning your emails. Your phone rings. It's your boss. Get down to the Louvre, she shouts. There's been a jewel eyes . You've been crashing at your cousin's place. She inherited her parents' apartment who inherited it from their parents. There's no way any of you could afford it now. It's on Rue Saint Denis, just over a kilometer from Le Louvre. You can be there in five minutes on your bike . You race down the stone steps from the fourth floor apartment, your fleet feet slapping on the cold stairs. You grab your bike in the entryway and burst out onto the street. The street level store in your building, a charming place called Sex Shop Projection Video hasn't opened up yet. It's menu displayed next to the metal roll up door clamped shut to protect the goods in off hours. You steady your backpack and get on your bike under a sign advertising gadgets, lingerie, massage oils, preservatives, zapping and poppers . You pedal off into the street, barely missing the proprietor of the frog and Rosebuff at the corner. He shouts at you and you raise your hand in apology. As you careen down the streets, ringing your bell to move people out of your way and dodging white work vans , you see that the streets around the Louvre have been closed to cars. You hop up on the sidewalk and go as far as you can before a crowd of people clogs it. You jump off your bike and lock it to a nearby bike rack. You take your camera from your bag, pull your press pass from your po frckontet sling it around your neck, and then begin to weave your way through the crowd that is gathered . You approach a loading driveway to the museum. Its iron gates are open, but the way is blocked by police in their crisp navy blue uniforms and sharp woolen side caps . You take a few steps back in order to get a good shot of the cops. They're handsome and imposing with interesting faces and strong body language. It'll make for a great snap for the articles about whatever this turns out to be. You can hear people in the crowd murmuring, sharing what little information they have, tools, a ladder, scooters . As you raise your camera to get a picture of the cops, someone comes into view. He begins to stride through the frame, so you get the shot and then look down at your camera's display to see what you have . What you have is pure gold . When you look up to try and get another shot of the man who walks through the frame, he's already gone, but he lives on in your photo. All around you the crowd hums with excitement, but you are looking at the photo. The two police officers lean against the front of a patrol car. One stares directly at the interloper in the picture. The other shoots the man a side eye. Both cops have their lips pursed. And the man , he is the very definition of dapper. He wears a tweed vest, a khaki work blazer with a short wool overcoat, its satin lining barely exposed. He carries a tartan umbrella. A sin elegant tie pin holds his blue striped tie in place . His dress shirt is crisp, starched . Atop his head is a soft gray, almost fawn colored Fedora with a warm brown band. His eyes narrowed, he seems to be looking through the crowd, observing his pout , that of a man on a quest . Who is this man? You lower your camera and approach the officers. You ask who the gentleman in the hat is, that you need his identity. You're an AP photographer. You lift your press pass for them to view as you scan the street again for the man he's nowhere . The cop on the left of the photos shrugs. He doesn't know. You look to the cop on the right, he gives you a dismissive, half shrug, half sneer. He tells you how am I to know ? You dismiss them with a wave and walk off in search of this other mystery. Was that a detective, a sort of modern day Erqueue Poirot? Or was that one of the he creightws members , Lupin, gentleman thief. You don't know. All you know is that this will be the photo that makes your boss's day. You head deeper into the crowd hoping for more great shots. Hell yeah. So erron, this photo took the world by story. I remember this . Remember , it went viral. Like, who is this guy in the picture? Isn't that guy Derek guy, the guy who always talks about your outfit? He'd break it down. Can we take one moment to talk about how incredible Derek Guy is? If you're not following him on social media somewhere, he's on a bunch of different platforms . He is a genius. Yeah, especially men's men's wear. Like and I've learned so much from him and he's also he's kind of like the social media apex predator. Yes. So that no one can come for him and he can take people down so beautifully and he's like bulletproof he's king of the that you or this you? Yeah , basically yeah, so anyway, Derek Guy he's incredible. Okay, so people wanted to know is this a detective? A lot of people thought he was one of the detectives. He looks like it. I mean, is he a dapper thief? And then there was this rumor that he was AI like added to the shot extra interest. Yeah, for the for the lesser intellect people . So everyone is like, who is Fedora May? His also his vibe was incredibly not just his outfit, but his vibe like he looked like , you know , he was like so smooth looking. Yeah . So who's Fedora Man? Well, the answer came before that of who stole the jewels and where they could be. So one mystery. Yeah, see, Fedora man was actually Pedro Elias Garzon Delvau , a fifteen year old from a town southwest of Paris. Why does he help with this Frenchman? You got thirteen year old Henry James waxing Emily Court. You got this guy dressing more dapper than I've ever seen at fifteen . Yeah. So it turns out he and his parents had intended to go on a Sunday junt to the museum. Naturally. Only to find it was closed. According to NPR, Pedro is, quote, a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Ercouparot, who lives with his parents and grandfather in Ramboulets thirty kilometers from Paris, his mother, Felicite Garzon D'Avaux, grew up in an eighteenth century museum palace , daughter of a curator and an artist and regularly takes her son to exhibits. His father is a diplomat and quote prolific French storyteller. So he's got the money and the family proven ance to dress like a mid century literary detective. So the family, they moved a lot. Yeah. England, Spain, Bangladesh, eastern France , and then to this town outside of Paris . Pedro didn't see the photo right away . Like his pal sent him a screenshot this you . And then Pedro found out that he was all over TikTok and then in the New York Times Now he wasn't on TikTok, so he had no idea , but he does read the New York Times every day So why was he dressed like that? Yeah, why? He told the AP quote, I like to be chic. I go to school like this . I know amazing. Everyday dress. Well, it all started when he dressed up for a costume day at school as Jean Moulin hero of the French resistance during World War two . And in that forties era get up, he felt like he was his authentic self. I had a friend who did that. Dressed like the forties all the time and he felt like this is how right like I want to be wearing heavy wool slats. Yes, and so he loved the suiting. He loved the look of detectives and statesmen pocket watches. And he wasn't a stranger to fashion like this was he got his first bespoke tailored suit when he was twelve while the family was living in Bangladesh. Oh good. So he's like lived all over the globe. He's got all these things. And this is how he explained it, quote, for me, it's important to dress classic. And I like to dress like that because I love history, especially the twentieth century. That's why the mid century . For those of us who were born in the nineteen hundred ' s So from that dress up day on, did I get wild? God , he dressed like some sort of elegant time traveler. Yes. And so while he does dress down on occasion, he does not own a pair of sweatpants. Good. The Fedora isn't a daily thing. Okay. And that's special only for as he says, quote, weekends, holidays and museum visits. Oh. That was like when he goes into the city just for museum visits. I should note that he knows how to wear a Fedora. Yes. Like he's not all millery. No , I mean , he wears it like a noir film star. Yeah . So he did his best to keep his identity as Fedora Man under wraps , but eventually he had to go public . And so no, he's not this dashing detective on the case of the missing crown jewels. He's just Pedro, coolest kid in town. So anyway, back to the heist. Back to the working theory was that the crew was working for an organized crime syndicate . And then less than a week after the robbery, Saturday, october twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, police arrested two men from a Paris suburb in connection with the heist. So it seems that the cops had managed to link trace DNA evidence on the inside of one of the display cases to one of the suspects. I was wondering. Yeah . Then they tapped the guy's phone, had him under surveillance. Like this is fast. This is less than a week . One of the suspects was picked up that Saturday night at Charles De Gallirporte a. Oh, turn on flee. He was trying to get a flight to Algeria . Another guy was about to head out to Mali when he was arrested. See, I would take a boat across the Mediterranean. He could n't airport . Soon, like everything starts to fall into place for the cops. The third member of the crew got arrested while he was waiting in line to get into a soccer game. Oh no , do and the last guy got picked up because he told his family all about what he did then. they And told others and that proved that you need to learn how to keep secrets if you want to be a successful crimer . It's like, you guys, it was so crazy. And then I dropped the crown and I stepped on. Can you believe it? Like my boot marks around. It such' as p ierre thing to do . So all four of the guys, they're from this suburb of Paris called Oberville. North of the city. It's like a challenged, mostly immigrant area. He's like Algerians? A lot of yeah. Once the investigators were able to tie them to a place , then they poured over CCTV footage from the neighborhood. Oh, right. And then they hit the jackpot So they gathered in a parking garage after they made off with the jewels. Like they pulled the vanish. Okay . And then they got out and quote admired their loot and above them a security camera. They're like, Hey, look at this, like holding it up to the light. Is this a good angle? Can you get those secure locations? . So per town and country magazine who had like incredible coverage. Town Country . Quote, three of the men were old friends , Sliman , an amateur soccer referee , Abduli , a minor YouTube star known for motocross acrobatics. And Rashid, a convicted pimp who was licensed to drive flatbed trucks. Le Mec Ayed , who had immigrated from Algeria in twenty ten was Slimaine's cousin. Okay . So LePrizian newspaper said that Ad ulay was quote known on social media as Doodoo Crossbutin a well known neighborhood figure who had released numerous videos on YouTube and more recently TikTok and Instagram. Some videos with the slogans toujour pupil debitum always closer to the tarmac. Yeah , show him performing tricks on motorbikes in Paris and Abuvier near the Stadi Franc Sports Stadium . Others offer muscle building tips. Oh . So neighbors , neighbors told Laprus that he was, quote, helpful, decent, and a man who wears his heart on his sleeve. Man of passion. The New York Times reported quote, We consider him a legend in the community because of how early he took to the practice and because of the risks he took, said the French urban Motrossor in cfluen cer Alan Henry who goes by the moniker Weediful and whose YouTube channel has more than three hundred sixty thousand subscribers . Love the French. You know what was in some of his oodoo cross bitom