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October 29, 2025 16 mins

The Paris Prosecutor held a massive news conference today on the latest update on the Louvre $102 million jewelry heist! After thanking everyone and congratulating one another…. The big announcement was the jewels are still missing and so are two of the robbery suspects! We did get some fascinating new details on the arrest of two other suspects and learned more about how they pulled off the seven minute, historic heist.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, there're folks. It is Wednesday, October twenty ninth, and
week just a short time ago saw a huge press
conference French officials lined up congratulating each other over the
Louver heist. Arrests have been made and the big question

(00:23):
everybody has is what Robes, where are the jewels? And
with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ
and Robes. If they're coming out congratulating each other and
telling us about the arrests and giving us details, surely
you wouldn't come out and say congratulations without telling us
where the jewels are.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, these are, or at least they are surrounding the
same folks who told us that there were no security
failures at the Louver. So just take that all into perspective.
But yes, you came running back from the front room
because you saw that this press conference. Oh god, and
you said, Robes, oh my god, we're gonna get all

(01:05):
of these amazing details from this press conference. I can't
wait to hear it. You turned the volume up, yep,
And honestly, at one point we started laughing. That's actually
an honest response to what we were watching and what
more importantly we were hearing or not hearing congratulations, naming
off all these folks. Congratulations. Okay, So waiting for the headline,

(01:29):
waiting for the headline, waiting for the headline never came.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And look, we robes here in this country, and certainly
us covering news for a long time, are used to
these press conferences where oftentimes we're like, just give us
the information. But instead they have to stand there. They
have to introduce this person from this county agency, so
and so on, here from the sheriff's office, someone here
representing the governor's office, that all these things introductions. Yes,
she did a bunch of introductions at the top, well,

(01:55):
long line of people sitting there, a bunch She's coming.
She named people, she named the number of people have
been working. She went on.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was like a long drum roll, wait for it
got to be it, and the it, I suppose what
would you say that it was?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
What was the highlight?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
The highlight?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
The headline?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
The headline was that they still don't have two of
the four thieves. They aren't naming the two thieves that
they have, They don't know where the jewels are. And
they were trying to appeal to the common sense of
the thieves to just go ahead give the jewelry.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Back, okay, And you actually got more headlines out of
it than I was able to come up with. But yes, folks,
we did, and I it's a true story. I was
thinking this was going to be the big breaking news,
because you would not put on a show like they
were putting on if you didn't have more to say.
But what they essentially did, Robes was confirm what was
already leaked and reported by other outlets. So what they

(03:09):
did do, though, they did confirm two arrests, two men
in their thirties. One was at Charles de Gaulle last Saturday,
trying to fly out of the country. He had a
one way ticket going to Algeria. Another guy they arrested
in his neighborhood. They said he had no plans, no travel,
and he was actually caught at the home and in
the neighborhood where he grew up. So those were some

(03:30):
of the new details that they gave us. One of
the men been living in France in twenty ten. Another one,
and this got attention and you thought, wait a minute,
what's going on because they reported that he was working
as an illegal taxi driver there for some time in France,
and when you first read it somewhere else, it just

(03:51):
said taxi drivering like, wait a minute, don't you have
to get clearances? This guy has a criminal history?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah? I was like, how could a taxi driver have
actually a violent criminal history? So I was concerned about that.
But these were known dudes, I guess within the criminal system.
But it's pretty fascinating. They did explain how they were
able to find these men. They actually recovered DNA from
a scooter used in the heist and a window at

(04:16):
the loop, like trace amounts of DNA. They said, in
because these guys had committed crimes before their DNA was
in the system, and they knew who to go after.
They knew who to go and try and hunt down
and arrest.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
And they say they are still hunting down too now.
They say they have been able to confirm through their
video surveillance they believe only four people were involved. They
also say that they have no indication that anybody inside
the museum was involved, so this was not an inside job.
They do not believe. I thought it was interesting robe
she's appealing. It was kind of an appeal to anybody

(04:51):
who might be holding on to these for safe keeping,
who might be interested in selling these with their or
excuse me, buying them for their private collection, or buying
the stones have already been chopped up. She tried to,
I guess, appeal to your common sense, not necessarily your humanity,
but essentially saying, what's the point, folks, You can't do

(05:12):
anything with it.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, she said, the jewels are now, of course unsellable,
so anyone who buys them would be guilty of concealment
of stolen goods. So then she said, there's still time
to give them back. So I don't know how effective
that plea is going to be, but that was what
they at least tried to take. This opportunity with the

(05:33):
cameras rolling. Can you do that appeal to the criminals.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's like a newborn, You leave it at the fire station,
no questions asked. Can you really walk back in here
and say, hey, here are you jewels? All good?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I doubt it. I doubt that very much so, but yes,
they're saying that these jewels, anyone who is an actual
jeweler or anyone who knows what they're buying would recognize
that this is not these are you know, these are
diamonds from what the what is that the fifteenth century?
I don't even know how far back they go, but
certainly they probably got something that sets them apart from

(06:08):
all others.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I wasn't helping you out on the date because I
didn't know it. Yeah, I wasn't trying to leave you hanging.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
But yeah, so that was her plea to and the
folks who still have them, these two other men who
they are looking for. We also found out that they
stole this cherry picker.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yeah, apparently it was a I've never heard of
a cherry picker jacking, but it was apparently what happened.
They jacked somebody from this thing a few days before
the actual robbery. So those were new details we got.
And also they made the point again the guys did
bring in disc cutters to rob the place, and she said,

(06:44):
even though these things can look intimidating, we have no
indication that they ever used them in a threatening way.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yep, all right. And then they also did acknowledge because earlier,
as I joked on the top of this episode, that
French authorities almost immediately were oddly quick to defend the
security that the system did not break down, the system
worked as it should, which was such a strange thing
to say when four men, unarmed were able to steal

(07:10):
more than one hundred million dollars worth of really truly
priceless jewels in eight minutes and get away, So that
was kind of a strange statement. Well, in the press
conference today we heard them acknowledge that the Lover's authorization
to operate its own security cameras expired in July and

(07:33):
wasn't renewed. There was some sort of paperwork lapse, and
so they weren't able to operate their own security cameras
at the Louver, probably the most renowned museum in the world. Yes, fact,
that is insane to think about.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Where are these two guys like and where is this stuff? Look,
that is the question, right, they're congratulating each other and
this was the day, So the question is where are
those jewels now? Bro She gave some She tried to
tap dance a little bit and said I don't want
to say too much, and she made clear or clear

(08:13):
indications that she believed she could say something that could
spook the other guys or in some way compromise their investigation. Obviously,
those guys know how hot they are right now? Are
they going to be able to get out of the country?
Where are those jewels? I'm fascinated somebody just walking around
with a duffel bag with the stuff in it.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And I'm curious if they know who they're looking for.
How much of these other two men actually given them
in terms of information? Do they have more DNA tying
the other two men to this crime, because weren't the
reports that only two of them went up on the
cherry picker and went through the windows, So that's where
the other two stayed below. So who knows if their

(08:54):
DNA is on anything, and if they even know who
they're looking for it didn't. It is strange. So in
the middle of all of these congratulations, they also admitted
that while the police officers arrived extremely fast after the theft,
they said that there was a lag in response earlier
in the chain as the events unfolded, so from the

(09:16):
first detection to the museum security, to the emergency line
to then police. So they're admitting now that they messed
up or at least lost some very crucial moments in
the early part of this heist. So again, it just
was such a bizarre press conference to hear them all,
or at least hear the lead spokeswoman pat everyone on

(09:39):
the back, and then go through all of the failures
that happened, and again the headline, we still don't know
where the jewels are.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Don't want to take away from the fact, you know
they're working around the clock. Of course, you know there
are a lot of good people over there, good investigators,
who are working their butt off to get this done.
So can't take that away. It just we are not
used to. Maybe they do it differently quite frankly over there,
but a congratulations mid investigation, and especially when it's I

(10:08):
guess the I guess. Do you think France would be
okay to get the jewels back and never catch the thieves?

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Right?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hard to say, I mean, the French do things very differently.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
But I want to it is for you as a
countryman of the United States. I don't know what our
crown jewels are, but if you right, how would the
French feel about that? Just give us our jewels back
and I really don't care if that's the trade off.
They get away with it and we get our jewels.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Fine, Yeah, I'm sure if they could find a way
they would because here's the problem. We talked about how
much money is missing in terms of the value of
these very priceless, obviously historic theirs, historic value and emotional
value to these items as well, but one hundred and
two million, one hundred and two million dollars. And with

(10:56):
this heist, there was another massive blind spot or issue
that perhaps they weren't really focused on that now they
are very aware.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Of and.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Continuing now our conversation on this massive Louver heist, we
had a big, seemingly impressive, important press conference this afternoon
talking about what officials have been able to accomplish in
these ten days since the jewels were stolen, and certainly
an update on the jewels themselves. Well, it turns out
there are two men behind bars and actually this was

(11:41):
interesting right now with what they're being charged with, this
is shocking given the weight of the story, the value
of what was stolen, the fact that they still don't
have these jewels back, and the fact that the world
is watching. How much time behind bars are these men
facing if convicted? Oh, they say years, what up to

(12:02):
fifteen years?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Up to fifteen years? I mean, maybe it doesn't matter
if they stole something that was worth five thousand dollars
or if it worth one hundred and two million. I
wonder if it's categorized all the same. It doesn't matter.
The value goes up and your prison sentence goes up.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
But these guys didn't use a weapon, and the commissioning
of this crime, nobody was threatened, nobody was harmed. They
broke a window and they broke a little glass, got
some valuable stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, but they Yeah, they stole one hundred and two
million dollars worth of historic, priceless Crown jewels. I mean,
it is insane. I was thinking because they weren't armed
that maybe that's why. But certainly you would think the
value of what they stole and the fact that it
hasn't been recovered would play into what their potential punishment is.
But yes, they are telling us they're each facing up

(12:52):
to fifteen years behind bars. That was shocking. Another shocking
development in all of this, the Louver based had to
admit that, whoopsie, the jewels were not insured, and that
is shocking to a lot of people, I.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Guess, but you shouldn't have to ensure the most important
things in your collection. These are the French crown rules
we don't need private insurance to ensure them, because that's
essentially us saying we don't trust ourselves to protect these

(13:35):
precious items, right, that's on you, France.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
So that's what the French state says it self ensures
its national museums because can you imagine they say the
premiums for covering priceless heritage are astronomically high, so it's
not worth it to them. However, could they have ever
anticipated this. You would obviously say it might have been

(14:00):
worth it to pay.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, we say that now, but still I would never
It's like it's like Donald Trump needing private insurance for
something he keeps in the White House. It's protected, it's
not gonna go missing. I wouldn't think to ensure things
that are in a fortified spot like that.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
That does make sense.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's just that friends didn't fortify. They forgot to dress
up that window a little bit apparently.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
But it is interesting to see how the French handle things.
The fact that their security cameras, eh, didn't bother to
keep those operating. Yeah, you know, we just didn't want
to ensure anything. And it's the premiums. Have you seen
what those are like these days, and then the congratulatory
tone that we did nothing wrong. And another interesting point,

(14:50):
the Louve's director tried to hand in her resignation saying, look,
this happened on my watch. I'm out. They refused the resignation,
and so so there have been no punishments or no
one has suffered any sort of consequence for the lapses
that clearly were there, and certainly there were some people

(15:14):
who let things slip through the cracks. However, so far
no one seems to be pointing the finger at anybody.
Maybe we could all take a lesson from the French
here in this country, where that's all we seem to
know how to do is point the finger at other
people before we even try to find the jewels. We'd
be saying, who needed to pay the price for letting
it happen in the first place.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
These things happen, right, These things happen all right, folks. Well,
we will keep an eye on this one. But apparently
those jewels are still out there. Keep an eye out
for them. Also, two dudes, no descriptions, no nothing they've
given us where they're looking, who they might be looking for.
But it's two more dudes running around out there somewhere

(15:55):
bleaned up.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's a French mystery.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, folks, we'll follow it from the States, but I
always appreciate you listening to us. Signed DJ Holmes alongside
my partner Amy Robot. We'll talk to y'all soon.
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