The Louvre’s director on Wednesday acknowledged a terrible failure at the Paris tourist attraction after a daylight crown jewel heist over the weekend, and said that she offered to resign but it was refused.
The world’s most-visited museum reopened earlier in the day to long lines beneath its landmark glass pyramid for the first time since one of the highest-profile museum thefts of the century stunned the world with its audacity and scale.
In testimony to the French Senate, Louvre director Laurence des Cars said that the museum had a shortage of security cameras outside the monument and other ?weaknesses? exposed by Sunday’s theft.
Under heavy pressure over a heist that stained France’s global image, she testified to a Senate committee that she submitted her resignation, but that the culture minister refused to accept it.
Today we are experiencing a terrible failure at the Louvre, which I take my share of responsibility in, she said.
The thieves slipped in and out, making off wit
