After the shock, after the emotions, after the evaluation, it is time to act, said museum director Laurence des Cars during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday.
Around 100 new cameras will be in operation by the end of next year, according to des Cars. However, new security systems aimed at keeping intruders away from the Louvre should be in place within two weeks.
The security measures are part of more than 20 different emergency measures that will be introduced, including the implementation of a new role as a “security coordinator” at the museum.
Four masked robbers broke into the Louvre on October 19 and stole a range of jewelry and jewels worth the equivalent of almost one billion kronor.
The Court of Auditors in France, which examined the theft, has called it a “deafening wake-up call” regarding security at the museum.
