PARIS (AP) 鈥� A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the 鈥� but this time it wasn鈥檛 jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark鈥檚 Apollo Gallery in
The world鈥檚 most-visited museum is slowly coming to terms with exposed by the theft, while investigators hunt for missing crown jewels worth $102 million.
With the Louvre closed Tuesday, maintenance workers in security helmets and high-visibility vests mounted a freight lift to a second-floor balcony to secure new metal bars outside a now-infamous window.
The sight mirrored what happened Oct. 19, when a team of thieves posing as workers used a similar lift, then sliced through the window to enter the gallery. They grabbed and other treasures, and eight minutes later they were gone.
have been arrested and charged. But the jewels haven鈥檛 been found.
Samuel Lasnel of maintenance lift company Grima-Nacelles said he and his crew arrived before dawn Tuesday to carry out the high-profile window-securing operation.
鈥淲e have already worked at the Louvre 鈥� on the interior, on the exterior, inside and outside the pyramid 鈥� we鈥檝e been here several times,鈥� he told The Associated Press. 鈥淭he Louvre knows us well.鈥�
The Louvre didn鈥檛 publicly comment about Tuesday鈥檚 security operation.
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