The director of the Louvre has offered to resign after thieves pulled off a $102 million jewel heist inside the world’s most visited museum, a breach now triggering a political firestorm over French security preparedness and cultural stewardship, Newsweek reported.
Louvre Director Laurence des Cars offered her resignation following the theft of eight historic crown jewels worth an estimated $102 million, calling the incident a “terrible failure” and acknowledging that the museum’s aging security infrastructure failed to detect the thieves in time.
Testifying before the French Senate’s culture committee Wednesday, des Cars said the robbery “exposed weaknesses in our protection system,” specifically pointing to camera blind spots in the Galerie d’Apollon — the wing housing royal artifacts.
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