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Jon Henley in Paris

Louvre president resigns as jewellery heist inquiry reveals ‘systemic failures’

Laurence des Cars
Laurence des Cars had offered to step down immediately after the burglary four months ago. Photograph: Emma Da Silva/AP

The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades.

Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aftermath of the burglary, tendered her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in what the French president called “an act of responsibility”, the Elysée Palace said.

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