RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's the heist getting attention across the globe, even from some who know a thing or two about solving these cases.

"It's amazing that they pulled this off, you know, in broad daylight ," says Frank Brostrom.

In a past life, Frank Brostrom was an FBI special agent assigned to their Art Theft unit in St. Louis. He says museums often monitor for suspicious activity or pre-planning, which is why the case at the Louvre is so baffling.

"Art museums know about how people do these things and how people case items and how they steal but they got caught with their shorts down with them coming in the back way through that window. And so there's going to be a lot of heads of the organizers of the Louvre museum for a lack of security," he says.

As for the art of the

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