The report of the parliamentary inquiry commission on museum security published on May 13

The commission, chaired by Alexandre Portier (LR), was formed in early December in the wake of the spectacular burglary at the Louvre on October 19, which caused a global outcry and revealed significant security flaws at the museum, which receives some 9 million visitors annually.

The publication of the report was "unanimously approved" by the members of the committee. "All groups were present. There were no abstentions," said Mr. Corbière.

The report makes "forty recommendations" to "address in particular the evolution of threats, the lack of (...) means of protection, the difficult working conditions of staff, the weakness of control by supervisory bodies, and the opacity of the conditions for appointing the directors of these large establishments," the MP said in a statement.

After hearing from "nearly a hundred people", conducting site visits and documentary analyses, the commission "uncovered weaknesses that have too often been kept silent," Alexandre Portier stated in a separate press release, adding that he did not want to "point the finger at culprits, but to prevent what happened from happening again."

"We are not dealing with an isolated incident, but rather a systemic failure. At the Louvre, as in other establishments, security has not been treated as a central priority, even though it constitutes the most fundamental mission of any museum institution," he adds.

According to him, "at the Louvre, in particular, despite old warnings and identified risks, the security policy has gradually drifted, without a reaction commensurate with the challenges."

In mid-February, during a progress review, these two officials accused the museum of having become a "state within a state", with "failing management", lambasting the management of the museum.

In the report's recommendations, MP Corbière intends to emphasize "three priorities": "staff", "the resources that must be given to institutions" and "the appointment of institution presidents by the President of the Republic", which he wants to see "modified", he told AFP.