Workers at the Louvre in Paris will vote on Monday to go on strike or continue talks with the government after months of mounting pressure on the world’s most visited museum, which unions have described as “in crisis.”
The Paris prosecutor announced four more arrests Tuesday in connection with the stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in October by a gang that made off with $102 million worth of jewels.
The day after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials from across Washington's world-famous museums were already talking, assessing and planning how to bolster their own security.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre Museum, justice and police officials said Sunday, a week after the heist that stunned the world and sparked a massive manhunt.
The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame.
The Louvre's director on Wednesday acknowledged a "terrible failure" at the Paris tourist attraction after a daylight crown jewel heist over the weekend, and said that she offered to resign but it was refused.
The Louvre reopened Wednesday morning to crowds under its glass pyramid — even as France reeled from one of the highest-profile museum thefts in living memory just days earlier at the famed museum.
Thieves who staged a daring daylight heist at the Louvre museum in Paris made off with jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102.63 million), Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday.
Crime gangs around Europe are robbing valuable jewels and gold from cash-needy museums like the Louvre. And while law enforcement often ends up catching the thieves, they struggle to recover the priceless goods, police and art experts say.
France's most visited museum, the Louvre, will remain closed on Monday, a spokesperson said, after a spectacular jewel heist on Sunday shocked the country.
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