One in every of a whole bunch of memes parodying the Louvre heist (screenshot Hyperallergic, by way of Instagram)
Two suspects have been arrested as a part of an investigation into final week’s daylight Louvre heist, Paris’s public prosecutor’s workplace introduced on Sunday, October 26.
The arrests have been made on Saturday night, prosecutor Laure Beccau mentioned in an announcement, including that 100 investigators are engaged on the case.
4 people broke into the Louvre’s Galerie d’Apollon final week, making off with eight objects of “inestimable heritage and historical value,” together with an emerald set gifted by Napoleon to his second spouse, Marie-Louise of Austria. In whole, the estimated worth of the stolen jewels is €88 million (~$102 million). Specialists fear that the objects may be dismantled or melted right down to be bought piecemeal.
In a tense listening to earlier than the French Senate final week, Louvre Director Laurence des Automobiles admitted to catastrophic safety failures, together with that an exterior video surveillance digital camera had been going through away from the place the thieves entered the museum.
As she faces intense scrutiny over the safety failures that led to the historic heist, des Automobiles obtained assist this morning from a world group of 57 museum leaders and curators. In an open letter they revealed in Le Monde, they wrote that des Automobiles’s “leadership and dedication to the museum’s mission, in particular as unifying spaces capable of mending our profoundly fractured societies, are deeply respected and admired.” Signatories embody Museum of Trendy Artwork Director Christophe Cherix, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Director Max Hollein, Tate Museum Director Maria Balshaw, and Nationwide Gallery of Artwork Director Kaywin Feldman. Different museum leaders represented establishments in Canada, Singapore, the Netherlands, and Mexico.
“Museums are not strongholds nor are they secret vaults,” the letter continues. “Their essence while creating the safest environment for art and its audiences lies in their openness and accessibility.”
The Louvre has not but responded to Hyperallergic’s request for remark.
