Thieves who stole more than €88 million in crown jewels from Paris' Louvre Museum in October escaped with barely 30 seconds to spare, a French Senate inquiry said on Wednesday, as lawmakers detailed a cascade of security failures that allowed the gang to slip away in broad daylight.
The parliamentary probe, ordered after the embarrassing 19 October daylight heist, found that only one of two cameras covering the break-in point was functioning and that security staff lacked enough screens to monitor footage in real time.
