Elizabeth Callaghan: UK correspondent on two men confessing to roles in Louvre robbery

Two men arrested last week have partially admitted their role in a brazen heist from Paris's Louvre museum.

Crown jewels worth millions of dollars were taken last week, when four people used a hydraulic crane to break into a window in broad daylight, then fled on motorbikes.

UK correspondent Elizabeth Callaghan explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Elizabeth Callahan UK correspondence with that's hello, Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello, I'm okay with that as well. If my daughter
was given more maths and it was more difficult, I'd
be cool with that, Thank.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You, said every parent everywhere.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Now, Elizabeth, how devastating is it to find out that
old mate, the six offender migrant guy got paid to
leave the country.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hmm. Yeah, it's not gone down well as you may expect.
He has been deported, but's Ethiopia. That happened on Tuesday night,
after he was accidentally released from jail, just you know,
just left roaming the streets. And now it's emerged that
he was given a discretionary payment of five hundred pounds

(00:45):
to make sure that he didn't bring some kind of
legal legal case to disrupt his removal. Now this does happen.
Apparently it's shining a light certainly on what goes on.
And you can pay up to fifteen hundred pounds, so
it could have been worse, I suppose. But questions are
being raised by the opposition. The Conservatives are calling it

(01:07):
an absolute disgrace, and the Lib Dems of saying that
the payment is outrageous and people will rightly be angry,
and they certainly are. So I thought it was going
to be all over. I'd have no more stories about
this man, this forty one year old, but it just
keeps going on and on and on. So five hundred

(01:30):
pounds just to get him out so that he wouldn't,
you know, bring any kind of legal that was going
to you know, just I kind of get it. I
kind of get it.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
That looks like it is.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
It is a perfect like if there is the easiest
way to get him out of the country after all
of the kfuffle that's gone with them, gone on with them,
absolutely get him out. But the fact that you people
cannot just remove people who shouldn't be in your country
is the That's the heart of the problem, isn't it.
So clearly there's going to be a lot of pressure
to change there. Listen, tell me what's gone on with
the Louver robbers.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
So the two men were arrested for this brazen robbery
that took place a couple of weeks ago. Now, according
to the Paris prosecutor, they have said that this pair
and custody have partially admitted their involvement in the robbery.

(02:24):
They are suspected of being the two men who used
power tools to take out the window of the Apollo
Gallery and steel the French Crown Jewels. Eighty eight million
euros worth of jewelry was stolen from this world famous
museum earlier this month, and the prosecutor was also addressing

(02:45):
evidence at press conference yesterday. Sorry addressing rumors or news
reports that the theft was an inside job, So prosecutor
was saying, no, no accomplices worked at the museum. But
certainly they're obviously investigating all areas and all angles, and

(03:06):
but they're not ruling out the possibility that there were
more than the four suspects caught on CCTV. And as
you can imagine, I mean, this was a highly organized heist,
wasn't it. Unfortunately, no word on where the jewels are presently.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Very interesting. Hey, thank you, Elizabeth, there's always appreciated. Look
after yourself. That's Elizabeth Callahan, UK correspondent out the floor
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