The brazen daytime heist at the Louvre was carried out by petty criminals rather than professionals from the world of organised crime, the Paris prosecutor has said, describing two of the suspects as a couple with children.
The assertion comes two weeks after thieves parked a stolen truck outside the world’s most-visited museum, used a furniture lift to reach the first floor, then smashed their way into one of the museum’s most ornate rooms. Less than seven minutes later, they escaped on scooters with crown jewels worth an estimated €88m (£76m).
Idk… I mean how many robberies have you stopped in your life? Are you a clown? 🤷
You mean - How many times have I been employed as a security guard? A security guard for some of the world’s most valuable art, in the world’s most famous art museum? Is that what you mean? “How many robberies have you stopped where it was specifically your job to prevent such an occurrence?”
I’m a bit of a clown, but your question is beyond even my ability.
Seems like maybe if you meant “security guards” that’s what you would have written in your original comment. But that is not what you wrote. We are working off of what you give us here.
Even if you HAD written that, who pays security guards enough to give a crap and how many of them ever have the chance to stop a heist in progress?
Seems like there’s a head of security feeling pretty stupid for not having better protocols, but your blanket statement is pretty 🤡 to me.
Fair enough, that’s a good point. My blanket statement would’ve included general staff & so on, and I certainly only intended to have a go at the security staff. As far as “who pays enough”, I’d certainly hope the highest-profile art museum would.
I appreciate you. I do hope the head of security feels like as much of a clown as I am.
It would not surprise me to find out that the louvre doesn’t pay much for security.
The few times I’ve been to the pyramid the guards have been less than unhelpful. They seem more decorative than anything. I left my phone once and someone took it to the security office there and I tried to ask a guard where that office was and he just kept saying “give up your phone is gone”.
I have no idea what their upper level security is like though.
“Decorative guards” could explain quite a bit about the heist.