Louvre emptied of historic jewellery in minutes

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The world's most visited museum remained closed for a second day in a row on Monday. Around sixty investigators from the Paris Criminal Investigation Department's Anti-Banditism Brigade and the Central Office for Combating Trafficking in Cultural Property were mobilized.
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Published today at 11:07 a.m., modified at 6:39 p.m.Reading time 2 min.What are people saying about museum security?The heist has reignited a row over a lack of security in France’s museums, which are far less secure than banks and increasingly targeted by thieves.
Last month, criminals broke into Paris’s Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth $700,000, while thieves also stole two dishes and a vase from a museum in the central city of Limoges, the losses estimated at $7.6m.
The justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, admitted on Monday to security flaws in protecting the Louvre. “What is certain is that we have failed, since people were able to park a furniture hoist in the middle of Paris, get people up it in several minutes to grab priceless jewels, giving France a terrible image,” he told France Inter radio.
Nunez acknowledged that securing museums was a “major weak spot”. He noted that security measures at the Louvre had been strengthened in recent years, and would be reinforced further as part of a multimillion-euro
The day after a spectacular burglary, a meeting on securing the Louvre Museum took place on Monday morning, October 20, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, as well as police officials, "to identify what worked and what didn't work," according to Place Beauvau.

During this meeting, "it was agreed that an instruction be sent to the prefects to organize without delay an update on the existence of the measures already deployed around cultural establishments, and to reinforce security measures where necessary," explained the Ministry of the Interior.
Earlier, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said the authorities had "failed" by not preventing the burglary at the Louvre, which reflects "a very negative image of France. " Criminals were "capable of putting a freight elevator" on the public highway, "making people climb up in a matter of minutes to retrieve priceless jewels and giving a deplorable image of France," the minister listed.
 The spectacular burglary at the Louvre highlights the security flaws at the world's largest museum
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An “inestimable heritage value” The Louvre remains closed on Monday for the second day in a row after a burglary by four criminals who made off with eight "French crown jewels," the museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The spectacular theft took place on Sunday morning, shortly after the opening, when a commando of four criminals stole 19th - century jewelry of "inestimable heritage value" —in the words of the Ministry of Culture—before fleeing. Among the jewels were the necklace from the sapphire parure of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense, composed of eight sapphires and 631 diamonds, and the tiara of Empress Eugénie, which contains nearly 2,000 diamonds.
Around sixty investigators from the Paris judicial police's anti-banditry brigade and the Central Office for Combating Trafficking in Cultural Property have been mobilized.

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​The Court of Auditors explains that equipment has been installed at the Louvre in recent years in the temporary exhibition spaces that house many loans from abroad, to the detriment of the rooms housing the permanent collections. Thus, "60% of the rooms in the Sully wing and 75% in the Richelieu wing are not protected" by video surveillance, it specifies.