Days after diamonds valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) were stolen during the day, the director of the Louvre in Paris, Laurence des Cars, stated that she wants a police station to be established inside the museum. The Apollo Gallery, the site of the Sunday robbery, is still closed, but the most popular museum in the world reopened its doors on Wednesday.
During a hearing before the French senate, the director of the Louvre acknowledged that visual surveillance of the streets and the vicinity of the museum "is our weakness." According to her, there is just one camera outside the Apollo Gallery, and it "didn't cover the balcony" where the gems were taken by the robbers who broke into the museum.

According to des Cars, "there are a few perimeter cameras, but they are outdated." "The installed base is woefully insufficient."

Notably, she also claimed that following the incident, she had offered to step down, but Rachida Dati, France's culture minister, turned her down.

Ministers allegedly acknowledged that there were security gaps at the well-known museum, as many in France and around the world questioned how four robbers got inside, broke through a second-story window, and took the jewels without being detected.
The director of the Louvre defends alarms
Des Cars acknowledged that security cameras were unable to capture the burglars' entry, but he insisted that all alarms worked as intended. "The only camera installed is directed westward and therefore did not cover the balcony involved in the break-in," she stated.

Some perimeter cameras are in place, but they're getting old," she continued.
Following the Louvre's reopening, French President Emmanuel Macron has directed that security measures be "accelerated."
Eight items of jewellery were taken by the robbers, including a diadem adorned with almost 2,000 diamonds that originally belonged to Empress Eugenie and an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his wife.
The museum has no guards?
Christian Galani, a union leader who works at the Louvre, has stated that job losses over the last 15 years have left the institution without adequate security officers.
AFP cited him as stating, "You can pass through multiple areas without seeing a single guard."