Report of the French Auditor Louvre on the excessive discovery of art even as many rooms without cameras
France’s LOUVRE Museum began a security audit ten years ago, but the recommended improvements will not be completed until 2032, the state auditor said in a report on Thursday compiled ahead of the landmark month.
The daylight robbery, in which four robbers made off with 143 billion CDN stones, raised doubts about the world’s most visited museum as the manager of its myriad works. Authorities admitted the security was not a hack.
While investigators have charged four suspects with involvement in the attack, the jewels are yet to be recovered.
Excerpts from the report, published on Thursday by the National Accounts Office, known as the Cor Cour des Comptes, were available to the media days after the attack.
Only 39 percent of the museum’s rooms had CCTV cameras in 2024, the report said, and a security audit began in 2015, which found the museum had not been adequately monitored or prepared for security challenges in previous operations.
“It will take several years to complete the project, which, according to the museum, is not expected to be completed until 2032,” the report said.
It means the inability of the museum to renew the infrastructure built by spending too much money to buy art, only a quarter of which is represented by public projects, as well as inefficiency and ticket fraud.
Even the development plans announced this year were not based on the studies that took place, either technical or financial, and did not consider the needs of the workforce, said the report.
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The report made 10 recommendations including reducing the museum’s acquisition costs, increasing its ticket prices and revamping its digital infrastructure and governance.
In the face of “permanent attention to the books that do not belong to the information systems,” said the auditor, “the museum should strengthen its internal work of internal control, which remains under the center the size of the louvre.”
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The theft only reinforces some of the assumptions made in the report, Auditor General Pierre Moscovici told reporters on Thursday.
“The theft of the crown jewels was no doubt an ambitious alarm bell: this pace [of security upgrades] It is far from enough, “says Moscovici.” The authorities realize that they have heard these alarm bells. ”
He said the Louvre has enough funds for the necessary renovations, and “it must be done now.”
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After the robbery, French officials said the Louvre would introduce more security, including anti-traffic devices and anti-traffic lights on nearby public roads, later this year.
In January, amid growing complaints about museum disarray, France launched an ambitious project involving a new space dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisathe most famous painting in the world, with new security measures to protect its visitors and precious exhibits.
In a written statement published by the Library Office, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati said that she acknowledged the urgency of the technical work and again called for urgent corrective measures.
The director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, said that the document supported many of the Auditor’s recommendations, but emphasized that the Museum’s long-term plan is important to address its structural challenges.
