Catherine Porter

I thought it was a joke.

Like, no, not possible.

How could the world's most visited museum be robbed with such brazen audacity?

As far as we know, this heist started at 9.30 last Sunday morning.

typical, kind of quiet...

Paris morning.

And what we know is this truck that had a ladder attached to it rolls up to Louvre with two motorcycles.

Now, you might wonder why is there a truck with a ladder on it?

But in Paris, it's a pretty common sight because this is how you move your furniture in and out of your apartments because of how skinny the halls are.

So it rolls up, parks right up against the building on the sidewalk.

And two people pop out and they set out traffic pylons around the truck and they have fluorescent vests on like public workers do.

Nothing necessarily to see except for the two men that then went up this electric ladder to the balcony on the second floor were masked.

So that might have tipped you off if you were there.

But to be honest, this is the quiet side of the Louvre.

It's near the Seine.

Not a lot of foot traffic.

So they go up the mechanical elevator in a kind of bucket, like a cherry picker.

They get to this balcony onto the second floor of the Louvre.

And they use what are known as angle grinders.

Which is what exactly?