Catherine Porter

Which is a ton.

But she also said this interesting thing.

She said, look, you know, if you were to break them apart and melt them down, they'd be worth a lot less.

Yes.

in some ways almost beseeching to the thieves, like, please don't do this.

You're not going to make as much money as how we read it in the office.

For what purpose, do you think?

Yeah, I mean, even if they're worth 88 million euros, I think to the country of France and the history of the country, they're worth a ton more.

historically, symbolically, culturally, these things are priceless.

And so I think in some ways, a lot of people have been talking about, you know, how much they'd be worth, but really the loss is more emotional for the country than I think it is financial.

We'll be right back.

I think the predominant reaction has been shock and not that at the idea of these things being melted down per se, but just at the whole of what happened on Sunday morning.

The fact that these people could that easily get into the Louvre has caused a lot of different kinds of emotional reactions.

There's been anger.

People are stunned.

Some people are quite emotional about it.

The country's justice minister, he said that this is a certain sign of a failure.

We have failed.

It has been politicized.

There's been people, particularly on the right wing of the spectrum, blaming the government for not putting enough money into security.