Louvre heist: five keys to understanding the robbery – and security threats to museums everywhere

This general lack of knowledge about the complete layout of the museum gives sophisticated criminals an advantage. In the ...
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Louvre Robbery: What happened to tourists? This Little Rock couple knows

"After many times trying to get to the Louvre, we finally got here today, in the morning, and guess what happened?" Eileen ...
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The security threats that reveal how the Louvre heist was pulled off

The heritage preserved by museums cannot be measured solely in monetary terms. When a work disappears or is damaged, the loss ...

Louvre heist: French government closes museum for the day after theft of historic crown jewels

The Musée du Louvre was the target of a robbery on Sunday morning, French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati confirmed. No ...
CNN

Louvre museum shuts its doors as staff say they are overwhelmed

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the ...

Louvre worker says staff 'repeatedly warned about security shortcomings' before jewellery heist

A security worker at the Louvre has told Sky News that "obsolete" equipment and a "drastic cut in staff" meant they had ...

Security camera didn't cover area where jewel thieves broke into Louvre, director says

Laurence des Cars is speaking for the first time since a gang of masked thieves - who remain at large - carried out Sunday's robbery.
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Thieves force Louvre to shut its doors

Thieves have forced the closure of Paris’ Louvre museum. But an art heist was not the reason. Instead, the closure came after staff walked off the job on Wednesday in protest against the increasing ...