An ongoing investigation revealed critical errors in the museum's security response, including directing police to the wrong side...

An ongoing investigation revealed critical errors in the museum's security response, including directing police to the wrong side of the building. French investigators have uncovered a crucial piece of evidence in the $102 million Louvre heist: security footage that captured the thieves in action—contradicting earlier claims by the museum’s director that no video existed. The revelation, shared during a Senate hearing on December 10, underscores deeper systemic failures inside the world’s most famous museum. At an earlier hearing in October, the museum’s director Laurence des Cars told the same senate that the break-in had not been recorded because the security camera was facing the wrong way. Now, investigators from the French ministry of culture said that they did find a recording from one of only two security cameras that had been working near the site of entry. The deeper failure was that the Louvre’s security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time. By the time guards had manually switched to the relevant live feed, nearly eight minutes after the heist began, the robbers were already getting away. “An agent in the control room activated the camera’s zoom function to enlarge the image,” Noël Corbin, head of the investigation, told senators. “But by then it was too late, as the thieves had already left.” https://lnkd.in/gm2H4N6y