Louvre to arrange new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion methods after heist

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The pinnacle of the Louvre museum mentioned Wednesday that new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion methods will quickly be put in on the Paris landmark after final month's beautiful jewel heist.

The cameras — round 100 of them — can be up and operating by the top of subsequent 12 months whereas anti-intrusion methods will begin to be put in place inside two weeks, Louvre director Laurence des Vehicles mentioned.

She described the methods as gear that may forestall intruders from getting near the museum buildings, however didn't provide specifics. The brand new surveillance cameras will strive to make sure "full safety of the museum's environment," she mentioned.

"After the shock, after the emotion, after the evaluation, it is time for motion" on the world's most visited museum, des Vehicles instructed France's Committee of Cultural Affairs of the Nationwide Meeting.

She mentioned the brand new emergency measures are a part of greater than 20 that can be applied. In addition they embrace the creation of a "safety co-ordinator" place on the museum, and the job has been posted this month, she added.

<img loading="lazy" alt="Three framed portraits are hung on a black wall. Three people stand near them. A surveillance camera in the top right corner is in focus." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1a448a37-446f-4689-bb62-85644b21563f,1763600533779/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C7693%2C4851%29%3BResize%3D805 805w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1a448a37-446f-4689-bb62-85644b21563f,1763600533779/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C7693%2C4851%29%3BResize%3D1104 1104w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1a448a37-446f-4689-bb62-85644b21563f,1763600533779/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C7693%2C4851%29%3BResize%3D1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 762px) 93.6vw,730px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1a448a37-446f-4689-bb62-85644b21563f,1763600533779/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C7693%2C4851%29%3B" style="aspect-ratio:1.5858585858585859" data-cy="image-img"/> A surveillance digicam within the Richelieu wing of the Louvre. (Christophe Ena/The Related Press) On Oct. 19 it took thieves lower than eight minutes to drive their manner by way of a window into the Apollo Gallery with the assistance of a freight raise and steal a trove of crown jewels value 88 million euros ($143 million).

On Wednesday, des Vehicles unveiled some new particulars in regards to the safety breach that allowed the theft, saying the ability instruments utilized by robbers to chop by way of the show circumstances have been disc cutters meant for concrete.

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Footage from museum cameras present that in the course of the theft, the show circumstances "held up remarkably nicely and didn't break aside," she mentioned. "Movies present how tough it was for the thieves."

Des Vehicles careworn safety enchancment is a precedence of the decade-long "Louvre New Renaissance" plan launched earlier this 12 months, estimated to value as much as 800 million euros (round $1.3 billion), which goals to modernize infrastructure, ease crowding and provides the Mona Lisa a devoted gallery by 2031.

With the Louvre crumbling below the load of mass tourism, des Vehicles has restricted the day by day variety of guests to 30,000 in recent times.

The famed glass pyramid inaugurated in 1989 was meant to welcome about 4 million guests a 12 months, she recalled. This 12 months, already greater than eight million folks have visited.

"The intensive modernization that the Louvre underwent within the Nineteen Eighties is now technically out of date, with gear that has been overperforming for 40 years," des Vehicles mentioned.

On Monday, the Louvre introduced it was quickly closing some worker places of work and one public gallery as a result of they have been structurally fragile.