The director of the Louvre said she will ask France's interior ministry for a police station to be set up inside the museum, days after thieves stole jewels worth β¬88 million ($102 million) in an audacious daytime heist.
Laurence des Cars, speaking at a French senate hearing on Wednesday, conceded that video surveillance of the streets and areas around the Louvre βis our weakness.β
Outside of the Apollon Gallery there's only one camera and it βdidn't cover the balconyβ the perpetrators used to break into the museum and steal eight jewels, she said.
Overall, βthere are a few perimeter cameras, but they are outdated,β des Cars said. βThe installed base is very inadequate.β
The Louvre director said she had offered to resign in the wake of the robbery, but that France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati turned her offer down.
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