It's the smoking gun behind the most spectacular heist this side of the Millennium.

A French court has released a report slamming the leadership of the Louvre Museum in Paris for its focus on headline-grabbing purchases and renovation projects over maintaining the security of one of the world's largest museums.

The audacious daytime robbery last month, which saw four men walk away with priceless historic jewellery, was a "deafening alarm signal," Pierre Moscovici, president of the Court of Accounts, which authored the report, told journalists on Thursday.

Echoing the report, which was commissioned before the October 19 heist, he said that the museum leadership had prioritised "visible and attractive" projects, such as art purchases and revamping the museum layout at the detriment, notab

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