2025-10-22
18 分钟On Sunday morning, the first visitors entered the Louvre in Paris.
They were taking in the museum's thousands of masterpieces, like the Mona Lisa.
In one gallery, home to exquisite crown jewels,
some people looked like they were there maybe to do some maintenance.
They're wearing these yellow vests.
Perhaps they're delivery people, perhaps they're construction workers.
They're sort of anonymous in plain sight.
It's the sort of thing that you wouldn't notice until suddenly everything is going really wrong.
These were not museum employees.
They were thieves pulling off a heist.
Within minutes, they grabbed diamond and gem encrusted treasures and fled.
Two days later, the thieves are still at large.
So I asked Philip Kennecott, the post senior art and architecture critic,
about the question on all of our minds.
How do they do it?
It didn't take lasers and precise measurements and grappling hooks and all of these kind of Hollywood techniques to get into the scour.
It just took a little bit of force and a little bit of planning.
From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
I'm Colby Echoitz.
It's Tuesday, October 21st.