PARIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Thieves who stole more than $100 million in crown jewels from the Louvre in October escaped with barely 30 seconds to spare, a French Senate inquiry said Wednesday, as lawmakers detailed a cascade of security failures that allowed the gang to slip away in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
The parliamentary probe, ordered after the embarrassing Oct. 19 heist, found that only one of two cameras covering the break-in point was functioning and that security staff lacked enough screens to monitor footage in real time. <\/p>\n
When the alarm finally sounded, police were initially dispatched to the wrong location, investigators told senators.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive or take 30 seconds, guards or police could have intercepted them,\u201d No\u00ebl Corbin, head of the inquiry, told the Senate\u2019s culture committee.<\/p>\n
The report also cited outdated equipment, unaddressed vulnerabilities flagged in earlier audits and poor coordination between the Louvre and its supervisory authorities.<\/p>\n
It said the balcony used by the thieves had been identified years earlier as a weak point but never reinforced.<\/p>\n
The findings increase pressure on Louvre director Laurence des Cars, who is due to be questioned by lawmakers next week. All four suspected members of the motorbike-mounted crew have been arrested, but the missing jewels, valued at about $102 million, have not been recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Thieves who stole more than $100 million in crown jewels from the Louvre in October escaped with barely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104315,27182,104310,104311,104314,146,77906,95071,15076,85,52524,46,104307,104312,102,104313,104308,104309],"class_list":["post-177951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cascade","tag-crown-jewel","tag-culture-committee","tag-early-audits","tag-enough-screen","tag-entertainment","tag-footage","tag-guard","tag-head","tag-il","tag-investigator","tag-israel","tag-louvre-thief","tag-outdated-equipment","tag-police","tag-poor-coordination","tag-second","tag-senate-inquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}