Overview
- The museum reopened to visitors on October 22 with the Apollo Gallery closed to the public.
- Four thieves who stole nine Crown jewels worth €88 million in about seven minutes remain at large as specialist units lead the search with roughly 100 officers.
- Police are analyzing an abandoned vest that could yield DNA, according to investigators.
- The freight lift used to access the gallery was stolen days earlier from a Paris suburb and bears fingerprints and signs of an attempted burning, investigators say.
- Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the alarms worked, and Louvre management rejects reports that the display cases were less robust than before.