The director of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, months after the high-profile theft of France’s crown jewels from one of the world’s most visited museums.
Laurence des Cars submitted her resignation to President Emmanel Macron, who praised her decision at a time when museum needed “calm and a strong new impetus to successfully carry out major projects involving security, and modernisation”.
On the morning of 19 October last year, thieves used a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the museum from a balcony close to the River Seine.
The four main suspects have been arrested, but the eight prized pieces of jewellery, worth an estimated 88m euros have not been recovered.
