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In an effort to tighten security failures, a crane can be seen lifting a freight elevator toward the window louvre archive On Tuesday, but this time it was not jewelery thieves.
Experience the world’s most visited museum a surprise robbery In October, Paris The landmark is working to protect its objects.
Louvre closed on Tuesday, maintenance worker in safety helmet And high-visibility vests secured a cargo lift to the second-floor balcony to secure the new metal rods outside the now-infamous window.
Investigators are still searching for the missing crown jewels worth $102 million.
The scene mirrors the incident of October 19, when a team of thieves used a similar lift as workers, then cut the window to enter the historic Apollo Gallery. They grabbed the tiara, emerald earrings, a sapphire necklace and other treasures and eight minutes later they left.
All four suspected thieves have been arrested. But the jewelery was not found.
Samuel Lasnell of maintenance lift company Grima-Naselis said he and his crew arrived before dawn on Tuesday to carry out the high-profile window-securing operation.
“We’ve already worked on the Louvre — the interior, the exterior, inside and outside the pyramids — we’ve been here several times,” he told The Associated Press. “The Louvre knows us well.”
The Louvre did not comment publicly about Tuesday’s security operation.
The looters included a diamond and emerald necklace given by Napoleon to Empress Marie-Louise, jewels belonging to 19th-century queens Marie-Amalie and Hortense, and a pearl and diamond tiara belonging to Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugénie.
Footage from museum cameras showed that the two men who broke into the ornate Apollo Gallery used a grinder to cut through jewelery display cases.
Queen Eugenie’s emerald-studded royal tiara, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, was later found outside the museum.