New details about Louvre heist revealed as officials announce stricter security measures

Following the caller heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials person announced stricter information measures, on with caller insights into however the thieves successfully robbed the world’s astir visited museum.

Louvre manager Laurence des Cars shared the changes and caller details with the Committee of Cultural Affairs of the National Assembly connected Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

Des Cars said the powerfulness tools utilized by robbers to chopped done the show cases were disc cutters made to chopped concrete.

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In 2019, show cases had been replaced to support against limb attacks wrong the museum, but the disc-cutting method "had not been imagined astatine all," said des Cars.

"Videos amusement however hard it was for the thieves," she said. She added that the show cases "held up remarkably good and did not interruption apart."

Thieves connected to the October Louvre heist utilized disc cutters to bargain $102 cardinal successful jewels. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

On Oct. 19, a four-person squad broke into the Apollo Gallery successful wide daylight and stole 8 jewels valued collectively astatine 88 cardinal euros ($102 million).

About 100 100 cameras volition beryllium installed by the extremity of 2026, portion anti-intrusion systems volition beryllium moving wrong the adjacent 2 weeks, the depository said.

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"After the shock, aft the emotion, aft the assessment, it’s clip for action," said des Cars.

She said the caller surveillance cameras volition warrant "complete extortion of the museum’s surroundings."

On Oct. 19, a four-person squad broke into the Apollo Gallery successful wide daylight and stole 8 jewels valued collectively astatine $102 million. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

The caller measures are a portion of implicit 20 caller exigency measures, including the constitution of the caller relation of "security coordinator."

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Fox News Digital antecedently contacted the Louvre to inquire whether the heist volition impact its security measures, but the depository said it does not "discuss information matters."

About 100 100 cameras volition beryllium installed by the extremity of 2026, portion anti-intrusion systems volition beryllium moving wrong the adjacent 2 weeks. (Thibault Camus : AP)

"The extended modernization that the Louvre underwent successful the 1980s is present technically obsolete, with instrumentality that has been overperforming for 40 years," des Cars said.

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The "Louvre New Renaissance," launched this year, volition constrictive successful connected easing crowding by modernizing infrastructure.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.