The Louvre reopened its doors to visitors on the morning of Wednesday, October 22, for the first time since the spectacular burglary committed on Sunday by four criminals still on the run, who left with eight pieces of jewelry for damage estimated at 88 million euros.
From 9 a.m., the usual opening time, the first visitors began to enter the busiest museum in the world. However, the Apollo Gallery, where the theft took place, remains closed, the Louvre told Agence France-Presse.
The curator of the Louvre estimated the damage from the jewels stolen on Sunday from the Apollo gallery at 88 million euros on Tuesday, according to Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau. A sum “extremely spectacular” but who “has nothing parallel or comparable to historical damage”added the prosecutor, specifying that the criminals “will never make this significant amount of money if they had the very bad idea of destroying and melting these jewels”.
The investigation is progressing according to the public prosecutor. “Assessments are ongoing, four people were identified on site, with no certainty that there was no team to assist them”she also stated.
The intrusion, which calls into question the reliability of the museum’s surveillance system, will also lead to its director, Laurence des Cars, being heard by the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
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