US EditionLouvre Tightens Security After $102M Jewel Heist, Installs Bars on Infamous Window
The Louvre installed metal bars on a window used in the $102 million jewel theft to enhance security after the October heist exposed vulnerabilities, officials said.
- The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, has tightened security after the theft of crown jewels worth $102 million.
- Maintenance workers installed metal bars outside a window used by thieves posing as workers to enter and steal the treasures.
- Four suspected thieves have been arrested and charged, but the stolen jewels have not been found yet.
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Paris. A gate of protection was installed yesterday in the window of the Louvre Museum through which the thieves entered during the jewelry theft that went around the world on 19 October, noted a journalist from Afp.
The president of the Laurence des Cars museum had announced the installation of this grid "before Christmas", it is now done. According to Le Parisien, a protective grid was installed on Tuesday... The article Bribery at the Louvre Museum: a protective grid installed on the window of the gallery of Apollo where the break-in took place appeared first on current values.
The Louvre Museum is urgently addressing security vulnerabilities and reinforcing security measures by installing iron bars on windows that were breached during a burglary in which royal jewels worth $100 million were stolen without a trace.
Once again, men dressed as construction workers appeared at the windows of the Louvre's first floor, but this time they weren't jewel thieves. Using a cherry picker, real workers were now installing metal bars across the balcony window where burglars had stolen tens of millions of euros worth of jewelry over two months earlier. "The Louvre knows us well," the head of the security company told the AP news agency. "We've been here a few times." Th…
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