This is The Guardian.
Today, the jewellery heist of the decade.
So this was a sunny Sunday morning outside the most visited museum in the world.
It was 9.30am.
People had already started visiting the museum.
Cues were forming outside.
People were milling around inside.
At her flat not too far away, Orgillique Chrysophist, the Guardian's Paris correspondent,
was finally hoping for some downtime after a tumultuous few weeks in French politics.
But it wasn't to be.
At 9.30am,
four men arrived in a truck outside the Louvre Museum on one of the streets which borders the River Seine.
And they drove this truck right up to the edge of the wall of the museum,
beneath a very beautiful balcony.
First of all,
they carefully put out traffic cones to look like they were doing building work or delivery.
They had an extendable ladder, so they pushed up that ladder.
They had a furniture hoist.
And then two of the men, one was wearing an orange hi-vis jacket like a builder,
and one was wearing a yellow hi-vis jacket.