Louvre was open goal

PARIS police have acknowledged major gaps in the Louvre's defences turning this month's dazzling daylight theft into a national reckoning over how France protects its treasures.

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Paris police chief Patrice Faure told Senate legislators that ageing systems and slow-moving fixes left weak seams in the world's most visited museum.

"A technological step has not been taken," he told legislators, noting parts of the video network are even still analogue, producing lower-quality images that are slow to share in real time.

A long-promised revamp - a 93 million dollar (£70 million) project requiring roughly 37 miles of new cabling - "will not be finished before 2029-2030', he said.