00:00Stunning and embarrassing. The heist of the French crown jewels shocked the country and the world.
00:06Since then, the museum's director has been under mounting pressure,
00:11ultimately sending a resignation letter to French President Emmanuel Macron.
00:16The head of state accepted it, hailing it as an act of responsibility at a time when the
00:20world's largest museum needs calm. The break-in exposed glaring security
00:25gaps at the world's most visited museum. Several suspects have been arrested,
00:31but the jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros remain missing.
00:36Days after the theft, Laurence Descartes said the Louvre's CCTV system was outdated and inadequate.
00:44If we're talking about the weak points, our weakness is that basically we were not able to spot the
00:50arrival of the thieves sufficiently in advance. For many, her resignation comes as no surprise.
00:57It ends months of questions over why no senior official had stepped down after the heist,
01:03a robbery many see as the most humiliating breach of French cultural security in living memory.
01:09But the heist is not the only crisis that increased pressure on the director.
01:14Strikes over pay and working conditions have led to repeated closures,
01:18and just two weeks ago, the museum was hit by two serious water leaks.
01:23And French prosecutors have charged nine people in a ticket fraud scheme
01:28that may have cost the museum 10 million euros.
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