{"id":248597,"date":"2025-12-24T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/248597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:49:09","slug":"louvre-museum-installs-security-bars-after-102m-jewel-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/248597\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Museum installs security bars after $102M jewel heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum<\/a> \u2014 but this time it wasn\u2019t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark\u2019s Apollo Gallery in October\u2019s stunning heist.<\/a><\/p>\n

The world\u2019s most-visited museum is slowly coming to terms with security failings<\/a> exposed by the theft, while investigators hunt for missing crown jewels worth $102 million.<\/p>\n

With the Louvre closed Tuesday, maintenance workers in security helmets and high-visibility vests mounted a freight lift to a second-floor balcony to secure new metal bars outside a now-infamous window.<\/p>\n

The sight mirrored what happened Oct. 19, when a team of thieves posing as workers used a similar lift, then sliced through the window to enter the gallery. They grabbed tiaras, emerald earrings, a sapphire necklace<\/a> and other treasures, and eight minutes later they were gone.<\/p>\n

All four suspected thieves<\/a> have been arrested and charged. But the jewels haven\u2019t been found. <\/p>\n

Samuel Lasnel of maintenance lift company Grima-Nacelles said he and his crew arrived before dawn Tuesday to carry out the high-profile window-securing operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already worked at the Louvre \u2014 on the interior, on the exterior, inside and outside the pyramid \u2014 we\u2019ve been here several times,\u201d he told The Associated Press. \u201cThe Louvre knows us well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Louvre didn\u2019t publicly comment about Tuesday\u2019s security operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum \u2014 but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,715,366,18,117,1015,2220,3334,19,17,24126,129581,4597,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-248597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-general-news","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-louvre-museum","22":"tag-samuel-lasnel","23":"tag-theft","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115772271023996734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}