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

International EN 24 Feb 2026, 20:26 Source: The Guardian

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 jewe...

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