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Speaker 1: In France, Catherine Field, morning to you. Good morning, Mike,

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Speaker 1: seeve what's the big I was saying, as a sort

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Speaker 1: of musing out loud, what's the biggest scandal the fact

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Speaker 1: they've nicked some stuff or the fact they could actually

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Speaker 1: nick the stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact of how they did it was pretty audacious,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Mike? Coming nine point thirty on a Sunday morning,

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Speaker 2: Hiver's Jackets rolling up on a main street in Paris,

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Speaker 2: parking this truck, putting the traffic cones around it, then

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Speaker 2: putting the ladder up to the balcony and breaking into

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Speaker 2: sort of this is extraordinary stuff. I mean, we're used

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Speaker 2: to the movies, aren't we, where we see James Bond

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Speaker 2: use helicopters and laser cutters things like that. But this

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Speaker 2: was just a basic old fashioned smash grab, get out

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Speaker 2: and get on the road.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that I see, I get the cones,

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Speaker 1: I get the truck, I get the letter of people

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Speaker 1: haven't seen the pictures. They should because it just looked

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Speaker 1: like whitmen. But the part where they were slicing through

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Speaker 1: the window, nobody's thought, hmm, that doesn't look normal. Seems

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Speaker 1: the most extraordinary thing or that alarms didn't go off,

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Speaker 1: all lights didn't flash.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, if anyone knows Paris, they know

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Speaker 2: you do not have workmen on a Sunday morning, So

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Speaker 2: that should have had a few alarm belsering, wait, you

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Speaker 2: know what's going on here? Next thing, Yeah, that they

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Speaker 2: were able to get through that window long before the

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Speaker 2: alarms went off. Now, just to give you a bit

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Speaker 2: of context on this one, Mike, the Apollo Gallery is

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Speaker 2: very long and thin, and one of the star things

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Speaker 2: about this gallery when it was renovated and eighteen fifty

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Speaker 2: one was it had that window that looked out over

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Speaker 2: the sand. Yeah, this is supposed to be what they did,

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Speaker 2: so that was why that window's there, just to give

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Speaker 2: some light and to make it so wonderful. But you're

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Speaker 2: quite right, there were so many things that went wrong.

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Speaker 2: Why did it take so long for the alarms to

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Speaker 2: go off? Why did your visit this place is meant

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Speaker 2: to be hooked up to these central police station in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Didn't they think, wow, this is strange, someone's got a

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Speaker 2: letterer up the side of the louver or too many

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Speaker 2: questions to be asked, not least why was it that

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, the new director of the LOUVER said,

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Speaker 2: security has to be tight, and this place is just

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Speaker 2: waiting to be robbed.

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Speaker 1: Have they got any clothes? They know where they're looking,

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Speaker 1: Where are these things?

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Speaker 2: They have no idea what they're looking for. It's over

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours now. The state prosecutor here has said

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Speaker 2: the first forty eight hours will be crucial because up

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Speaker 2: till the end of forty eight hours the robbers will

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Speaker 2: be sort of looking to hide themselves. I mean, there

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Speaker 2: does seem to be some sort of possibility that they

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Speaker 2: will get DNA. Of course that DNA will come from

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Speaker 2: the crown which they dropped as they were trying to

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Speaker 2: get away. They will get some of that. They've also

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Speaker 2: found one of the Hiver's jackets, which obviously fell off

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Speaker 2: the back of the motorbike because they're driving away. They

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Speaker 2: think possible that this is people who knew what they

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Speaker 2: were doing, just the way they did at the time

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Speaker 2: and the speed with which they did it, that this

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Speaker 2: was an organized gang, had a carefully laid out plan,

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Speaker 2: and perhaps it even meant that they were stealing these

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Speaker 2: to order, so they'd get them somewhere, get the jewels

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Speaker 2: out and have them melted down so they could recast

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Speaker 2: them or sell them on.

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Speaker 1: If they catch them, will they end up in the

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Speaker 1: cell next to Sarkozy.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's an other of them. You remember that big

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Speaker 2: heighs We had twenty sixteen Kim Kardashian ten million dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of jewelry, So maybe that one, But no Sarkozy,

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Speaker 2: former French President. He heads off to prison Tuesday morning,

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Speaker 2: our time first ever former head of the European Union

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Speaker 2: country to serve time behind bars. The last French head

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Speaker 2: of state to go behind bars was, of course, the

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Speaker 2: one who was the Nazi collaborator Pictar. Because he was

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Speaker 2: he signed the Armists with Germany. Were told that Miss

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Speaker 2: how Cozy will be there. Members of his family will

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Speaker 2: be there to show solidarity as he goes in the door.

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Speaker 2: We're also told he has told Le Figaro magazine that

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Speaker 2: he will take with them two books. One of them

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Speaker 2: will be a copy of Alexander Dumar's Count of Monte Cristo,

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Speaker 2: which just from memory, tells the story of a man

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Speaker 2: who escapes prison after being falsely accused of treason, and

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Speaker 2: is also going to take a new biography that's been

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Speaker 2: written about Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we wish and well, nice to catch up, Catherine

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Speaker 1: appreciated Catherine Field in France. By the way, I'm reading

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Speaker 1: about AI in that particular part of the world. In

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Speaker 1: Europe generally, Europe is planning to triple the data center capacity. Now.

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Speaker 1: Is that interesting? Well, it sort of is because in

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Speaker 1: southern Europe about thirty percent of the population are situated

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Speaker 1: in areas with permanent water stress. So of course these

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Speaker 1: people build these things next to water and they don't

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Speaker 1: have enough water, so they don't have enough water currently,

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Speaker 1: So what are they going to do when all the

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Speaker 1: data centers arrive? Has anyone thought about that? And here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing. They seem asleep at the will. The

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Speaker 1: eu IS announced in the over the weekend that they're

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven they're going to have their anti drone

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Speaker 1: system up and running. So currently the war's going on.

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Speaker 1: The drone incursions are happening right here right now. Europe

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Speaker 1: busy going this is this Russian thing? Is this a problem? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It is? What should we do? I know, we'll find

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Speaker 1: something to fix it. By twenty twenty seve have they

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Speaker 1: been waiting for the funding for the drone Wall of significance.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems slow, doesn't it. For

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