The direction of Louvre Museumin Paris, defended this Tuesday the quality of the windows, installed in 2019, which stored the jewelry stolen on Sunday, maintaining that they were safer than the previous ones.
“The Louvre Museum maintains that the showcases installed in December 2019 represented a considerable advance in terms of security, given the degree of obsolescence of the old equipment, which, without replacement, would have meant removing the works from public view”, stated the management of the Parisian museum, in response to a publication from the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné.
The satirical newspaper stated that “the theft of the Crown jewels, which occurred on the morning of October 19, could probably have been avoided if the Louvre had not replaced the display cases that house them with supposedly safer ones“, noting that the current showcases were “apparently more fragile than the old ones”.
On Sunday, it took criminals just a few minutes to enter the Galeria de Apolo in a goods elevator, quickly break two of the three display cases installed at the end of 2019 to store the precious jewelryusing an angle grinder, and escape with eight jewels.
Le Canard added that an old armored display case, installed in the gallery in the 1950s and equipped with a system that allows it to disappear “first alarm” for a safe, would likely have prevented theft if it had been kept in place.
However, the museum management argued that the old system, which was fitted with a new mechanism in the 1980s, “has become inoperative and obsolete, with the side shutters jamming when lowered”.
Three new showcases “that offer all the necessary guarantees”, including the two matches on Sunday, they were commissioned following studies launched in 2014, added the management.
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