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MYSTERIOUS: Louvre director admits insufficient camera coverage after heist 2c6aa2c6 2ae7 4a27 837f 9414b15b02af - What They Never Told You

Des Cars defended the museum's 80-million-euro security plan (Credit: AFP)

The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted to inadequate camera surveillance of the museum's outside walls, three days after thieves robbed it of prize jewels in a brazen daytime heist.

But Laurence des Cars said that a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that the burglars damaged and dropped as they fled on Sunday could be restored.

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