US EditionLouvre Director Grilled in Senate Hearing Over ‘Cult of Secrecy’ Accused of Enabling Theft
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The Louvre leader Laurence des Cars has to admit serious omissions in front of a cultural committee of the Senate. Thus, a security plan has not been implemented for nine years. The worst accusation concerns a window.
Louvre Director Grilled in Senate Hearing Over ‘Cult of Secrecy’ Accused of Enabling Theft
Louvre president Laurence des Cars faced an fraught Senate hearing on Wednesday as lawmakers pressed her on years of allegedly neglected security warnings preceding the October theft of $102 million in imperial jewels — an interrogation that has intensified calls for her resignation. The session followed revelations that multiple audits conducted in 2017 and 2018 flagged structural vulnerabilities in the Apollo Gallery, where intruders broke …
After a first hearing at the end of October, the president of the Louvre Museum Laurence des Cars was questioned again by the Senate's Culture Committee on 17 December. Without denying the serious flaws on the Louvre's safety, she says that the corrections are being made.
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