Jewels stolen from Louvre worth estimated £76 million
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Laurence des Cars told France's Senate the heist exposed the museum's camera shortage and other security 'weaknesses'.
In 1962, the Countess of Paris attended the wedding of fellow European royalty in Queen Marie-Amélie’s sapphires—which were snatched in what has become one of the worst thefts of its kind.
The intruders scaled the Louvre with a hoist and sped off on motorcycles, stealing Napoleonic-era jewels from Apollo’s Gallery.
Thieves have stolen priceless jewels from the Louvre using a basket lift, according to France's interior minister
The only camera monitoring the exterior wall of the Louvre where they broke in was pointing away from the first-floor balcony that led to Gallery of Apollo housing the jewels, she said. "We failed these jewels,