German businessman Alexander Böcker was reading the news with his wife last Sunday when she told him about a robbery at the Louvre in Paris.

"My wife said, 'Well, look at this: Somebody broke into the Louvre. There's a robbery going on!'" he recalled in an interview with CBS News.

Right away, his wife, Julia Scharwatz, noticed something familiar: the lift used in the robbery looked just like one that their company makes.

"If you know the product, you can really quickly identify that it was your product," Böcker said on Friday. "It became clear to us that this is a reprehensible act, and they have used our machine for it."

The machine was the Böcker Agilo, a lift that can be used in construction or to hoist furniture to apartments through upper-story windows.

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