Louvre Management: Damages from the theft of the Crown Jewels amount to 88 million euros

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Louvre Management: Damages from the theft of the Crown Jewels amount to 88 million euros

I appreciate managing Louvre Museum in Paris The value of the damage resulting from the theft of jewels that occurred on Sunday is 88 million euros.
The Public Prosecutor of the French capital, Laure Picot, said: "The curator of the Louvre Museum estimated the damage at 88 million euros, which is a very huge amount, but it is insignificant and incomparable to the historical damage."
She indicated that the thieves would not reap this value if they had a very bad idea of melting down these jewels.

The administration defends itself

The The Louvre Museum in a statement to the agency "AFP" Tuesday, about the quality of The jewelsthat were stolen on Sunday from the Apollo Hall, in response to being described as "Apparently more fragile than the old one"

The Parisian Museum administration confirmed that "The facades installed in December 2019 represent a significant improvement in terms of safety, given that the previous installations were very outdated and, had they not been replaced, would have resulted in the items being withdrawn from display.".

It was the satirical newspaper "Le Canard Enchaine" I considered that "Steal The Crown Jewels The incident on the morning of October 19 could undoubtedly have been avoided if the Louvre Museum had not replaced the showcases behind which these pieces were displayed with ones that were supposedly safer.".