Whether the people in charge of security were DEI hires almost does not matter. There seems to be broad consensus on the interwebs that this should not have happened. Biggest criticism = a maintenance truck pulls up to the museum and no one checked it out?!?

I visited the Louvre in 1979 when we lived overseas, our first family trip to what Brits call the Continent. Might have visited again during a class trip in 1982 mais je ne me souviens pas.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15219157/Astonishing-new-video-shows-Louvre-robbers-calmly-escaping-mechanical-delivery-basket-fleeing-76m-worth-jewels.html

Sharon W, I loved the Musee Cluny.

Something like 8 million people visit the Louvre each year: it simply doesn’t have the capacity for “most of us” to have visited, even if all 8 million were all Americans of a certain age, even if it were free to go, unless there is some other variable besides our age to explain our likelihood to have gone….

In my case I have to say it was really lack of interest on my part that I didn’t go when I was younger; when I add up the things I used to spend money on that were of no lasting significance, I could certainly have squeezed at least one budget trip to Europe out of it, had I made it a priority, and probably most of us could have at some point. While working through college I had friends no better off than I was who managed to do it.