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Gavin Grey: UK/ Europe Correspondent on Louvre Museum heist · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We've got a big high at the Louver in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Gray is a UK europe correspondent. Kevin, do we
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  Speaker 1: know what these thieves got away with? Well? Ran. The
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  Speaker 1: police have been a bit vague at the moment, but
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  Speaker 1: it's thought to be relating to the former royal family
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  Speaker 1: of France. Indeed, it is said that they dropped a
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  Speaker 1: very very valuable piece of jewelry that was the crown
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  Speaker 1: of the wife of Napoleon. So these artworks were very
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  Speaker 1: very well regarded among the antique world. They were ancient,
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  Speaker 1: they were very important to France, and yet they were
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  Speaker 1: taken from the Louver. The Louver is the world's most
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  Speaker 1: popular museum, draws up to thirty thousand visitors a day,
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  Speaker 1: and as they were opening for business today, just before that,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's thought three maybe four men
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  Speaker 1: wearing hoods broke in via unbelievably a sort of a
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  Speaker 1: lifted hydraulic platform that was parked outside on the River
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  Speaker 1: Sains side of the Louver, and then used cutters to
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  Speaker 1: effectively get in through a window and then just take
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  Speaker 1: what they could. And it appears that they've got away
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  Speaker 1: with quite a lot of very very valuable and important jewelry,
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  Speaker 1: nine pieces in total, including a necklace, approach and the
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  Speaker 1: tiara from the Napoleon and French Sovereigns display cases. It's
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  Speaker 1: been reported by the Parisian newspaper. It's thought two suspects inside,
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  Speaker 1: the third state outside. They all got away on a
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  Speaker 1: motorbike and the museum has been shut the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the day, but not before a huge amount of panic
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  Speaker 1: when people queuing to get in all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: were told to evacuate the building as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 1: A massive manhunt now underway in Paris. Given what about
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew. He's going to not use his titles anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but there's more headlines about him, there are, I'm afraid,
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  Speaker 1: And this comes ahead of Tuesday's publication of Virginia Giufrey's memoir.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Virginia Jeufrey was the woman who accused Prince
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  Speaker 1: Andrew of having sex with her when she was seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: saying she was effectively trafficked by the late disgraced financier
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. So we're waiting to find out watts in
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  Speaker 1: the book. In the meantime, we're getting more and more information. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew has decided to completely step back from the
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  Speaker 1: royal family. It was said, in conjunction and consultation with
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  Speaker 1: the King he was going to not use his titles anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can read between the lines. The King
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  Speaker 1: told him he was not going to use his titles anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're also getting reports that Prince Andrew asked
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  Speaker 1: a London police officer to dig the dirt on Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Dufrey just before that famous picture which shows him with
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  Speaker 1: his arm around her waist, a picture which he says
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  Speaker 1: has been photoshopped and he never met Virginia Dufrey. To
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  Speaker 1: be clear, Prince Andrew says he has nothing to be
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of. He's not hidden anything regarding this, and that
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  Speaker 1: he never met Virginia de Frey. But it looks like
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  Speaker 1: this latest thing about asking a police officer is yet
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  Speaker 1: more trouble for him and further problems for the King
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  Speaker 1: as he tries to distance himself from his younger brother. Gavin.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Gavin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent. For
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