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The Daily

Le Heist

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In just under 10 minutes on Sunday, thieves stole precious jewelry from the Louvre Museum in Paris after using a truck-mounted ladder to break into a second-floor window. Catherine Porter, a New York Times international correspondent in the French capital, explains how the robbery unfolded.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Natalie. Taking a quick second here because we here at the Daily are working on a fun little project, something that we'll share later as a special bonus episode for New York Times subscribers. The idea is simple. We're going to be talking to our fascinating colleagues here at the New York Times about who they are and how they do their jobs. And as a part of that project,

0:22.3

we want to hear from you. What's the one question you've had for our colleagues, but never

0:27.6

gotten the chance to ask? We started with games, and now we're going to go to the Times

0:32.0

restaurant critics, Tagell Rao and Ligaya Mishan. They're both new to the job, and they've brought a lot of exciting changes.

0:39.3

One is in California, the other one's in New York City.

0:42.1

They're no longer dining anonymously, and they're reviewing restaurants all over the country.

0:48.0

I personally have a ton of questions for them.

0:50.8

Like, how are they going to get fair service from restaurants?

0:53.9

How do they know they're not

0:54.7

getting treated differently than us regular folks? How do they pick where to go? And also, most importantly,

1:02.3

what's their most controversial food take? Get us your questions, please, by leaving a message at

1:08.8

212-556, 4,000. Again, that's 212-556, 4,000. Okay, here's the show.

1:19.9

From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrowaf. This is the Daily. The world's biggest museum, a symbol of France, now a crime scene.

1:30.1

Over the weekend, a group of thieves staged a remarkable heist at one of the world's most

1:35.5

famous museums.

1:37.1

Officials in Paris say the masked crooks used a basket lift in cutting tools to just break

1:42.3

into a gallery.

1:43.4

Stealing some of the most precious and culturally significant jewels in Europe,

1:48.2

in the middle of Paris, in broad daylight.

1:51.0

It's like a scene from a film.

1:52.0

Yeah, you could not make it up.

1:53.8

I thought it was a joke.

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