Lawyers representing the main suspect in the recent Louvre Museum heist are urging authorities and the public to exercise caution before drawing conclusions. The defense team insists their client is being unfairly portrayed amid intense media coverage surrounding the high-profile art theft.
The heist, which shocked France and the global art community, involved the disappearance of several valuable works. Investigators continue to pursue multiple leads while maintaining that the suspect remains under formal investigation but has not been convicted.
00:00walk at the end of the hearing now we're ready here we're ready here counsel can we tell you ah
00:30why did you ask a little errors were communicated by the public prosecutor
00:39some errors were also communicated in the media we're talking about a robbery we're talking about
00:47a robbery it's a factual error it's a burglary in this regard i would like to inform you on behalf
00:54of my three colleagues that we will be extremely vigilant about ensuring the accuracy of the
00:59statements that will be relayed in this case and above all and above all i say this about the
01:05privacy of our client this is a case that may be extraordinary but he is a man he is a man who has
01:10the right to his dignity he is a man who has the right to discretion and if i tell you this about
01:14him it's even more true for his loved ones thank you have you've been able to see what state of
01:19mind your client is in i will not answer the questions information has come out in the media
01:27we on behalf of the defense team urge you to be extremely careful with the information that is
01:33communicated we have not yet received a copy of the file so we are surprised to see journalists
01:39claiming to have information on this case which is still today covered by the secrecy of the
01:44investigation for a long time a suspect is assumed to be completely innocent potentially innocent
01:50the paris public prosecutor was able to indicate that the gentleman was placed under judicial
01:55supervision we understood today that he was not placed under judicial supervision that he was not
02:00subject to a coercive measure that he was only being referred for acts of vandalism and not for
02:05acts of aggravated theft in any case he is not a perpetrator he is a suspect it is a mistake to say
02:10that he is the perpetrator of a robbery he is a suspect a suspect assumes that he is presumed innocent
02:16that he is potentially innocent what exactly is he saying
02:19still medium
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05:18Please, please, madam, please.
05:45Please, madam, Mrs. Descartes, just a look, please.
05:51Thank you very much, madam, please.
05:54Our work today.
05:59Ah, we welcome Lawrence this afternoon.
06:02We have an infrastructure that is, let's say, incompetent, which does not allow us to graph modern and state-of-the-art equipment, particularly in terms of video and detection, onto an infrastructure that simply does not support it.
06:18We also have major concerns, let's say, regarding the installation of security posts within the museum, which are aging.
06:32Last night.
06:51I want to remain hopeful that they will be found
07:21and more broadly to the nation.
07:26Do you think you are aware of the type of theft?
07:28And I hope we will.
07:32This press conference will take place in several ways.
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