The world's most visited museum has revealed that French police have dismantled what they called a 'large-scale' ticket fraud network.
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Visitors may have passed through the Louvre's glass pyramid with valid tickets—but, prosecutors say, many of those tickets were being swiped again and again. French authorities have charged nine ...
Guides who escorted Chinese tourists through the museum allegedly reused tickets and bribed security to look the other way.
The scam involved reusing tickets and bribing Louvre employees to bypass ticket checks ...
The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade.
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The Louvre museum's Denon gallery, where its most valuable paintings are displayed, was hit by a water leak on Thursday evening, said a Louvre spokesperson.
After a break-in, strikes and a ticket fraud scandal, the beleaguered Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it had suffered a ...
Another flood has damaged a gallery at the Louvre in Paris, adding to its catalogue of recent woes, the museum said on Friday, days after the arrests of several people suspected of defrauding ...
The leader of the French political party Les Patriotes called it a "shame" for France that Laurence des Cars is still the museum director ...
Two Louvre employees and several tour guides have been arrested in a decade-long ticket fraud scheme that allegedly cost the museum more than €10 million.
A water leak affected the Denon gallery in the Louvre museum, where valuable paintings are displayed. The Mona Lisa was not impacted. The leak was contained, but some ceiling damage occurred. This ...
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