The workers of Louvre Museum This Monday, they called for a strike which will begin on December 15 and which could last for the following days. The reasons respond to the controversy over the dilapidated state of some of its installations and the theft of the French crown jewels of which it was the victim in October.
The objective of this “Expandable” unemploymentvoted unanimously in the general assembly on the proposal of the CGT, CFDT and Sud centers, is to denounce the working conditions and the lack of resources, according to union sources cited by the media, explains EFE.
The announcement of this call comes a day after learning that November 27 Several hundred books damaged by flood in the antiques library caused by the rupture of certain pipes whose dilapidated state was known.
On November 17, the museum closed an office and, as a precaution, a gallery of Greek antiquities below, after detecting security concerns. fragility of certain beams of this area of the complex.
But what has sparked the most controversy in recent weeks is the spectacular flight on October 19during which a group of thieves entered the Apollo gallery in broad daylight with a mobile forklift and stole the crown jewels of France.
The four members of the commando were arrested, but the jewelry could not be recovered. Next Wednesday, in the Senate, the conclusions of the administrative investigation launched to clarify what happened and possible security failures will be presented.
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