The Louvre was not done with the looting that resulted, on 19 October, the jewels of the French crown being stolen from the Apollo gallery. The largest museum in the world even seems cursed to drink the cup down to its dregs. In fact, we thought we knew everything about the security flaws that existed at the company. The Senate, the Court of Auditors, and the Ministry of Culture openly criticized the incompetence of its officials, who were deemed guilty of negligence. However, not everything has been revealed yet.
According to information from Worlda security audit carried out in 2018 by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels for the museum had pinpointed, as a point of vulnerability, the balcony used by thieves and the use of a goods lift to access it. The Paris court, which is handling the case, is currently unaware of the report, but it could open up new clues for investigators regarding possible sponsors who profited from the leak.
In 2018, when the Paris Prefectural Police and luxury brands in the capital were concerned about the increase in robberies, especially in the Louvre district, the company’s management, then headed by Jean-Luc Martinez, ordered an audit from renowned experts, the security and safety department of Van Cleef & Arpels. The museum’s president, a year earlier, had received an alarming report on the same subject, from the National Institute for Advanced Study of Security and Justice. Assessing his conclusions, certainly alarming, but all too general, he hopes that, this time, appropriate recommendations will allow efforts to better protect national wealth to begin.
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