Gavin Grey: UK/ Europe Correspondent on Louvre Museum heist

The hunt continues for the thieves who stole priceless jewels in a heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The world's most famous art gallery is closed after a group of thieves used a ladder and small chainsaws to enter the Apollo Gallery, and escaped on scooters with items of 'incalculable' value.

UK/ Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest. 

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Episode Transcript

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We've got a big high at the Louver in Paris.

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Kevin Gray is a UK europe correspondent. Kevin, do we
know what these thieves got away with? Well? Ran. The
police have been a bit vague at the moment, but
it's thought to be relating to the former royal family
of France. Indeed, it is said that they dropped a
very very valuable piece of jewelry that was the crown

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of the wife of Napoleon. So these artworks were very
very well regarded among the antique world. They were ancient,
they were very important to France, and yet they were
taken from the Louver. The Louver is the world's most
popular museum, draws up to thirty thousand visitors a day,
and as they were opening for business today, just before that,

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all of a sudden, it's thought three maybe four men
wearing hoods broke in via unbelievably a sort of a
lifted hydraulic platform that was parked outside on the River
Sains side of the Louver, and then used cutters to
effectively get in through a window and then just take

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what they could. And it appears that they've got away
with quite a lot of very very valuable and important jewelry,
nine pieces in total, including a necklace, approach and the
tiara from the Napoleon and French Sovereigns display cases. It's
been reported by the Parisian newspaper. It's thought two suspects inside,
the third state outside. They all got away on a

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motorbike and the museum has been shut the rest of
the day, but not before a huge amount of panic
when people queuing to get in all of a sudden
were told to evacuate the building as soon as possible.
A massive manhunt now underway in Paris. Given what about
Prince Andrew. He's going to not use his titles anymore,
but there's more headlines about him, there are, I'm afraid,

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And this comes ahead of Tuesday's publication of Virginia Giufrey's memoir.
I remember Virginia Jeufrey was the woman who accused Prince
Andrew of having sex with her when she was seventeen,
saying she was effectively trafficked by the late disgraced financier
Jeffrey Epstein. So we're waiting to find out watts in
the book. In the meantime, we're getting more and more information. Yes,

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Prince Andrew has decided to completely step back from the
royal family. It was said, in conjunction and consultation with
the King he was going to not use his titles anymore.
I think we can read between the lines. The King
told him he was not going to use his titles anymore.
But now we're also getting reports that Prince Andrew asked
a London police officer to dig the dirt on Virginia

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Dufrey just before that famous picture which shows him with
his arm around her waist, a picture which he says
has been photoshopped and he never met Virginia Dufrey. To
be clear, Prince Andrew says he has nothing to be
ashamed of. He's not hidden anything regarding this, and that
he never met Virginia de Frey. But it looks like

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this latest thing about asking a police officer is yet
more trouble for him and further problems for the King
as he tries to distance himself from his younger brother. Gavin.
Thank you, Gavin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent. For
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