The Louvre reopened Wednesday, three days after a brazen daylight heist stripped its Apollo Gallery of jewels worth €88 million. Visitors returned at 09:00, though the gallery remains closed as investigators hunt four masked thieves who used ladders, a disc cutter and pulled off the heist in under eight minutes before fleeing on scooters. President Emmanuel Macron called the raid an attack on heritage and urged faster security upgrades; a Senate hearing with director Laurence des Cars is due. A preliminary report flagged patchy CCTV and alarms, while officials insist wider alarms sounded and protocols were followed.

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