{"id":232204,"date":"2025-10-22T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:39:09","slug":"we-failed-to-protect-jewels-from-brutal-criminals-louvre-director-says-after-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232204\/","title":{"rendered":"We failed to protect jewels from ‘brutal’ criminals, Louvre director says after heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Is anyone to blame for Louvre security debacle?published at 16:20 BST<\/p>\n

16:20 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor<\/p>\n

Obviously, the answer is yes. Quite simply France’s crown jewels should not be stolen from the nation’s most storied museum half an hour after opening time on a Sunday.<\/p>\n

And yet, there has been a curious refusal to admit failings, unless you count Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin’s admission that “what is certain is that we have failed”.<\/p>\n

But the people most directly responsible – and they don’t include Darmanin – have been more reticent about failings.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez has admitted there was a failure, although he asserted: “The alarm system worked perfectly, as
\nsoon as the window was attacked, it was activated. <\/p>\n

“Police were
\nnotified, and within three minutes they were on the scene. The
\nwhole system worked, it didn’t fail, but what happened has
\nhappened.” <\/p>\n

Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the same: “Were the security measures at the Louvre Museum faulty? No, they were not.”<\/p>\n

The French public will be looking for more concrete explanations than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is anyone to blame for Louvre security debacle?published at 16:20 BST 16:20 BST Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Obviously,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-232204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}