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At a Senate hearing, Louvre director Laurence des Cars detailed failures in the Paris museum's security and also confirmed that she had offered to resign but the move was rejected by Culture Minister Rachida Dati.

Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars has admitted a "terrible failure" after thieves cut through a window and stole jewellery worth nearly €90 million. She said she takes responsibility for weaknesses in security that allowed the gang to strike on Sunday morning.

The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted to inadequate camera surveillance of the museum's outside walls, three days after thieves robbed it of prize jewels in a brazen daytime heist.

A brazen daylight heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris has triggered comparisons with the infamous Kim Kardashian robbery, reviving questions about elite thieves and museum security.

How the Guardian reported the stealing of art works from the Paris museum including the Mona Lisa in 1911

On Sunday October 19, criminals managed to steal eight pieces of extremely valuable jewellery from the Louvre Museum’s Gallery of Apollo, in Paris. The robbery highlights long-standing issues for criminology in the field of cultural heritage, as museum security has to address traditional and emerging threats as well as a…

It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewellery and royal regalia were stolen, in broad daylight and in a matter of minutes, from the Louvre’s gilded Gallery of Apollo in Paris. The theft of these items from one of the world’s most…

A daring seven-minute heist at Paris's Louvre Museum left France reeling as thieves escaped with royal jewels worth millions. Experts now fear the priceless loot could vanish forever. Here's what might happen to the stolen treasures.

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French interior minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable heritage value’?

People queued outside the Louvre Museum in Paris on Monday, hoping it would reopen a day after a daring daylight robbery forced its closure.

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