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Louvre thieves evaded police with 30 seconds to spare, investigation finds

10 décembre 2025 à 13:49

Report found avoidable security failures including broken CCTV and lack of coordination at museum, hearing told

Louvre robbery in video, photographs and maps

The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation has revealed.

The investigation, ordered by the culture ministry after the embarrassing daylight heist, revealed that only one of two security cameras was working near the site where the intruders broke in on the morning of Sunday 19 October.

Water leak in the Louvre damages hundreds of works, museum says

The Guardian

Par :Agence France-Presse in Paris

7 décembre 2025 à 18:37

Open valve in heating system affects 300 to 400 items just weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised security concerns

A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.

“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers.