The security system at the Louvre Museum is “very inadequate” and didn’t capture the break-in at all because the lone camera in the area was looking the other way, museum director Laurence des Cars told the French Senate on Wednesday.

“Despite our efforts and our work, we were defeated” said Laurence des Cars, the director of the Louvre Museum, as she addressed the Senate on Wednesday at a special meeting to get answers on last week’s extraordinary theft of historic jewels from the national collection.

Explaining the situation with security cameras, des Cars stated she had identified a “worrying situation of museum security” upon taking up her post as director in 2021 and launched a modernisation policy. But it appears the lag-time between beginning the address the issue and upgrades act

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