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		</div><p>France’s culture minister has said that the security apparatus installed at the Louvre worked properly during a dramatic weekend heist in which historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most visited museum.</p>
<p>Questions have arisen about security at the Louvre – and whether security cameras might have failed – after thieves rode a basket lift up the museum’s facade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels on Sunday morning.</p>
<figure id="attachment_187242" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-187242" style="width: 696px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_0314-851x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="696" height="837" class="size-large wp-image-187242" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-187242" class="wp-caption-text">Stolen jewels include &#8211; Emerald Necklace from Marie &#8211; Louise’s Collection</figcaption></figure>
<p>“The Louvre museum’s security apparatus did not fail, that is a fact,” the minister, Rachida Dati, told politicians in the National Assembly. “The Louvre museum’s security apparatus worked.”</p>
<p>Ms Dati said she launched an administrative inquiry that comes in addition to a police investigation to ensure full transparency into what happened.</p>
<figure id="attachment_158381" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158381" style="width: 975px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/17D93A5C-921B-4897-B0F3-540FB0616A1E.jpeg" alt="" width="975" height="568" class="size-full wp-image-158381" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-158381" class="wp-caption-text">The Louvre 7 minute robbery was said to have been similar to the movie Ocean Eleven.</figcaption></figure>
<p>She did not offer any details about how the thieves managed to carry out their heist given that the cameras were working, but she described it as a painful blow for the nation.</p>
<p>The robbery was “a wound for all of us,” she said. “Why? Because the Louvre is far more than the world’s largest museum. It’s a showcase for our French culture and our shared patrimony.”</p>
<p>Interior minister Laurent Nunez said on Monday that the museum’s alarm was triggered when the window of the Apollo Gallery was forced.</p>
<p>Police officers arrived on site two or three minutes after they were called by an individual that witnessed the scene, he said on LCI television.</p>
<figure id="attachment_187239" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-187239" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_0311.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-187239" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-187239" class="wp-caption-text">A police van patrols in the courtyard of the closed Louvre museum</figcaption></figure>
<p>Officials said the heist lasted less than eight minutes in total, including less than four minutes inside the Louvre.</p>
<p>Mr Nunez did not disclose details about video surveillance cameras that may have filmed the thieves around and in the museum pending a police investigation.</p>
<p>“There are cameras all around the Louvre,” he said.</p>
<p>Sunday’s theft focused on the Apollo Gallery, where the Crown Diamonds are displayed. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already over.</p>
<p>Eight objects were taken, according to officials: a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amelie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife; a reliquary brooch; and Empress Eugenie’s diadem and her large corsage-bow brooch, a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble.</p>
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