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The director and head of security at the Louvre are still employed there after the theft

Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:49 am
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:49 am
But to be fair the director did ‘offer her resignation’ which was ‘rejected’.

Imagine failing this badly at your job and being allowed to continue on like nothing happened.

Laurence des Cars



Dominique Buffin



The director hired the head of security. They are both firsts in their respective positions.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 11:06 am
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:50 am to
It might be illegal to fire a woman in France
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:52 am to
I thought that was Mr Bean in drag for a second
Posted by Fat and Happy
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:53 am to
The reality of this is that, whether digitally or physically, no matter how well someone tries to secure things, there will always be someone that is better at getting around that.

While i get that it falls on her, there will always be someone that can beat her best security measures.

There have been teenagers that have gotten into national security information and that’s extremely secure information. So it’s all part of the cat and mouse game
Posted by TDFreak
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Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:57 am to
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While i get that it falls on her, there will always be someone that can beat her best security measures.
Wasn't the password to the security locks "louvre"?
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:58 am to
Tough to get fired in France
Posted by bbap
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:00 am to
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While i get that it falls on her, there will always be someone that can beat her best security measures.
Wasn't the password to the security locks "louvre"?


No. That was an audit from a decade ago that got brought back up for clicks, completely irrelevant to this heist.
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
1784 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:11 am to
One can’t help but wonder if they weren’t ‘firsts’ if they would still be employed.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:13 am to
Won't matter once they're replaced with muslims. Shouldn't be more than another year or two before that happens.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:14 am to
DEI
Posted by Afrojedi
Member since Jul 2017
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:17 am to
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Tough to get fired in France


Used to work for a German based company and according to the guys over there its damn near impossible to get fired. Like, you have to actively try to get them to remove you and even then its an up hill battle.
Posted by Giantkiller
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:23 am to
I love this for them. Should signal to art thieves that the getting's good over there. Take whatever you want with likely very little "catburgler" effort.

The 2025 thieves stole 8 pieces of the French crown jewels valued at over $100M in under 8 minutes... even being caught by security guards but threatening them with power tools.
Posted by TigerIron
Member since Feb 2021
3852 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:34 am to
quote:

The reality of this is that, whether digitally or physically, no matter how well someone tries to secure things, there will always be someone that is better at getting around that.

While i get that it falls on her, there will always be someone that can beat her best security measures.

There have been teenagers that have gotten into national security information and that’s extremely secure information. So it’s all part of the cat and mouse game



This is not "no one could have done anything" territory. There were a ton of security failures and just plain incompetence.

There is a lot of info on this out there:

Total incompetence
Posted by TygerLyfe
Member since May 2023
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:42 am to
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Wasn't the password to the security locks "louvre"?


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Posted by idlewatcher
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:48 am to
The French by nature are a weak people so it's not surprising they're still in their roles. Hope it happens again
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:48 am to
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It might be illegal to fire a woman in France



At the rate they are going it might become illegal to hire one under Sharia Law
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34061 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:15 pm to
Apparently neither of them watch "heist" movies. There are dozens of movies about robbing museums, many of them specifically about robbing the Louvre.
Posted by SUB
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:35 pm to
That's because France has shite employment laws. You get sued almost any time you fire somebody.
Posted by Bigdawgb
Member since Oct 2023
3357 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:38 pm to
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The reality of this is that, whether digitally or physically, no matter how well someone tries to secure things, there will always be someone that is better at getting around that.


I hear your message, but the reality is also that the person hired to be chief security expert at one of the world's most famous & most valuable museums needs to do a little better than using a 6 character computer password

It's like hiring a Michelin chef but they can't make toast. You probably wouldn't hire them
Posted by ronricks
Member since Mar 2021
11030 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:53 pm to
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It might be illegal to fire a woman in France


European employment laws are insane. We closed an office in Belgium and had to pay everyone for 5 years. Women have a year of maternity leave. Every time I email one of my colleagues in Europe I get an out of office message because of some bullshite holiday or policy those frickers are never at work
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 1:54 pm
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