‘French people feel as if they have been robbed’

The Louvre in Paris remained closed on Monday as police searched for four thieves who stole prized jewellery from the museum a day earlier in a brazen heist that lasted less than 10 minutes.

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The robbery of what officials described as priceless jewels stunned France and has raised uncomfortable questions about security at the world’s most famous cultural institution. “This morning, the French people, for the most part, feel as though they have been robbed,” Gérald Darmanin, France’s justice minister, told France Inter radio on Monday. “In the same way that when Notre-Dame burned, it was our church that was burning — even if you weren't Catholic — such an