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Louvre reopens Apollo Gallery after a brazen heist, but no jewels are on display
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Louvre reopens Apollo Gallery after a brazen heist, but no jewels are on display

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The Louvre's Apollo gallery is reopening to the public for the first time since last year's crown jewels heist. The museum has removed the collections and precious jewels, returning the gallery to its original ceremonial purpose. Security at the Paris museum has been boosted with new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems. On the day of the heist, thieves took less than eight minutes to steal the 88 million euro trove. Security improvement is a priority of the decade-long “Louvre New Renaissance” plan, launched last year, to modernize infrastructure and ease crowding.

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Le Pen says she'll run for French presidency next year despite court-ordered monitor

  • By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year despite being sentenced to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement. The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other. She potentially could be seeking votes while subject to electronic monitoring and a judge’s determination of how, and for how long, the punishment is applied. Le Pen said she will appeal Tuesday's ruling to France’s highest court.

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What to know about the electronic monitor a French court says Marine Le Pen must wear

  • By SAMUEL PETREQUIN, SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY - Associated Press

Marine Le Pen might have to wear an electronic monitor during her campaign to succeed French president Emmanuel Macron in elections next year. A Paris appeals court on Tuesday declared the far-right leader guilty of embezzlement and fined her 100,000 euros. The court also reduced her ban on elected office and her prison sentence, with one year to be served under house arrest with an electronic monitor. Le Pen said she’ll run for the presidency despite being sentenced and added that she now believes she won’t be subjected to monitoring at all.