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Louvre heist highlights thorny issue for museums: How to secure art without becoming fortresses
Many museums began reassessing security after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris. Some were also reflecting on the inherent tension in the task of securing art.
Three of the four people whom the police believe carried out the theft have been arrested. But the jewelry is nowhere to be found.
The president and director of the Louvre Museum has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the heist of priceless jewels.
According to local reports, the robbers were armed with power tools and fled the scene on motorcylces The Louvre Museum is closed following a 7-minute jewelry heist. On Sunday, Oct. 19, thieves broke into the famous museum in Paris,
The Paris prosecutor has revealed that two suspects in the Louvre jewels heist were previously convicted together in a theft case 10 years ago.
The Louvre museum at one point had its own name as one of the passwords to its video surveillance system, French newspaper Libération first reported. The iconic Paris museum in October was the scene of a heist where thieves stole several valuable Napoleonic jewels.