The Louvre is reopening for the first time since Sunday’s heist of the century. We will follow leads in a daylight robbery now estimated at 88 million euros and check security at the world’s most visited museum.

For now, the shuttering on the getaway window looks as tenuous as the standing of under-pressure authorities, the president of the Louvre answering earlier to a French senate panel said.

Beyond security lapses, is the 800-year-old fortress-turned-palace-turned museum simply too big to deal with the age of overtourism and shrinking public funding?

And after the 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, it is another cherished landmark making world news for all the wrong reasons. How much can a jewelry caper fuel the general feeling of citizens that they are being ripped off by elected leaders who do not deliver?

 

 

Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Ilayda Habip and Daniel Whittington