Louvre director admits ‘insufficient’ camera coverage after heist

The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted to inadequate camera surveillance of the museum’s outside walls, three days after thieves robbed it of prize jewels in a brazen daytime heist. But Laurence des Cars said that a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that the burglars damaged and dropped as they fled on Sunday could be restored. FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade reports.

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