{"id":244013,"date":"2025-10-22T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:10:08","slug":"louvre-jewels-heist-live-updates-museum-director-answers-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244013\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre jewels heist live updates: Museum director answers questions"},"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":244014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-244013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}