Laurence de Carle, director of the French Louvre Museum, admitted on October 22 that the Louvre security system has weak outdoors, long-term insufficient investment and lagging upgrading, and proposed preliminary corrective measures.

De Carle, who attended the French Senate hearing on the Louvre robbery on the same day, spoke publicly for the first time about the incident. In her statement, she said that when the robbery occurred, the internal alarm and surveillance of the museum worked normally, and there were four unarmed guards in the Apollo Corridor at the scene, who responded professionally to ensure no casualties.

DeCar acknowledged that the museum failed to notice the arrival of the robbers in advance. surrounding protection is the Louvre security "weak link", surveillance cameras on the exterior walls of the building long-standing equipment aging, serious lack of numbers, cannot cover all faces including the side of the Apollo corridor.

De Carle said that since her appointment in 2021, she has observed ¡°the Louvre¡¯s long-term insufficient investments in equipment and infrastructure¡± and stressed the current problem is that ¡°security systems are adapted to new attacks and ways of acting.¡± Over the past few years, the museum has focused mainly on the damage that environmental activists can cause by acting aggressively on climate change issues, such as splashing paint to paintings. Today, the target of the case has shifted to precious artifacts, metals and gemstones, and the approach is similar to organized crime.

In response to these shortcomings, De Carle proposed a number of improvement initiatives. In the short term, she hoped to immediately strengthen the protection around the Louvre, such as the installation of isolation devices to prevent vehicles from stopping. Long-term plans included doubling and upgrading the number of monitors in the district, and applying to the French Ministry of Internal Affairs to set up a police station in the district.

Decar confirmed that she resigned from the French Minister of Culture after the incident, but was rejected.

The Paris Prosecutor's Office said that on the morning of the 19th, four masked men used a lifting device to sneak into the room from outside the Louvre and stole nine pieces of jewelry in just a few minutes, during which they also threatened security guards with an angle grinder. Police later found a crown belonging to Queen Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, but it was damaged. Deckar said at a hearing on the 22nd that the robbers used an angle grinder to open some holes in the display cabinet and reached in to grab the jewelry. Eugenie's crown may have been damaged during the process of being taken out and can be repaired after evaluation.