Louvre president resigns as jewellery heist inquiry reveals ‘systemic failures’

Laurence des Cars steps down days after parliamentary inquiry called Paris museum a ‘state within a state’ The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades. Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aftermath of the burglary, tendered her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in what the French ...

By Jon Henley in Paris

Krádež za 88 miliónov eur otrasie Louvre. Riaditeľka končí, polícia márne hľadá korunovačné klenoty

Riaditeľka Louvru Laurence des Carsová podáva rezignáciu po sérii škandálov vrátane výraznej krádeže šperkov a opakovaných štrajkov pracovníkov. Prezident Macron hovorí o potrebe nového impulzu a posilnení bezpečnosti.