COPS ADMIT LOUVRE'S DEFENCE FAILINGS

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.

- BY THOMAS ADAMSON

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.