Overview
- The Justice Minister said the robbers accessed a freight lift from the street and completed the operation within minutes, calling it a failure of the authorities.
- Culture Minister Rachida Dati said four attackers spent about four minutes in the jewels room and appeared to know exactly which cases to target.
- Investigators say the thieves used a grinding disc to breach armored glass, and the alarm sounded only in the security control room, not in the gallery itself.
- The Paris prosecutor is leading the probe with organized crime as the main hypothesis, while other possibilities, including foreign state involvement, are not ruled out.
- An intergovernmental meeting on Louvre security is scheduled for Monday, and nine items from the Napoleonic collection, including a tiara, emerald earrings, a sapphire necklace and brooches, remain missing.