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HISTORIC: Louvre museum's first female security chief, hired by first female director, become first women to lose French crown jewels
notthebee.com ^ | Oct 21, 2025 | Jesse James

Posted on 10/22/2025 9:42:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN

History has been made!

Over the weekend, a crew of thieves rolled up to the famous Paris museum IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, used a crane to get inside, used chainsaws to cut through protective cases, and stole nine priceless treasures.

One, the gold crown of Empress Eugénie seen in the video below, was discarded and found later by police.

To make matters worse, it's not even the only heist from a major Paris museum that's made headlines this week. A Chinese woman has been charged with stealing gold nuggets on September 16th from the city's National Museum of Natural History.

That brings us back to the Louvre's first female security chief, Dominique Buffin. The Louvre's head of security, Dominique Buffin, was accused of being hired not on merit but on DEI (Diversity and Inclusion) policies and of putting France's national treasures at risk: the daring raid has humiliated France has also highlighted long-standing concerns about the security of the Louvre.

Ms Buffin, 46 years old, was hired as the first woman head of security by Laurence des Cars, the museum's first female director, last September.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; dei; diversity; dominiquebuffin; france; laurencedescars; louvre; louvrejewelheist; paris
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1 posted on 10/22/2025 9:42:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Funny.

First: it’s France. Second: A bunch of DEI hires show their incompetence. This joke wrote itself.


2 posted on 10/22/2025 9:46:21 AM PDT by bewildered (Great Speech)
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To: V_TWIN

Did the flaws suddenly appear when the women took their positions or were they already there and it was just coincidence? Just curious I guess.


3 posted on 10/22/2025 9:46:22 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: V_TWIN

Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.


4 posted on 10/22/2025 9:46:40 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: V_TWIN

Those are women?!


5 posted on 10/22/2025 9:47:05 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: V_TWIN

Get woke. Go broke.


6 posted on 10/22/2025 9:48:41 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: All
Know-nothing Buffin

The Louvre's first female security chief, Dominique Buffin, was accused of being hired not on merit but on DEI and of putting France's national treasures at risk: the daring raid has humiliated France has also highlighted long-standing concerns about the security of the Louvre.

7 posted on 10/22/2025 9:49:13 AM PDT by Liz (To make a conservative mad, lie to him. To make a leftist mad, tell him the truth.)
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To: V_TWIN

Hyperbole aside, the inflammatory headline begs the question, was the security on the crown jewels inadequate when a man last held both those positions, or did it somehow deteriorate under their collective tenures?


8 posted on 10/22/2025 9:50:37 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: No name given

I guess French women aren’t quite what they use to be!

I’m actually rooting for the the thieves for a change.
If security for something this valuable was this poorly handled, perhaps they deserve getting ripped off.


9 posted on 10/22/2025 9:52:06 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: V_TWIN
The one on the left looks like Mr. Bean in drag:

The one on the right looks like she escaped from a kennel.

10 posted on 10/22/2025 9:53:52 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: The Louiswu

t”...he daring raid has humiliated France has also highlighted long-standing concerns about the security of the Louvre.”


11 posted on 10/22/2025 9:56:05 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: V_TWIN
More Didn't Earn It.
12 posted on 10/22/2025 9:56:24 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Paal Gulli; The Louiswu

It happened on THEIR watch which makes it their responsibility.....if the security was lax they should have identified the shortcomings and taken measures to close the holes.

Getting a job and actually doing it are two totally different things.......see biden and obama.

That’s my take anyway.


13 posted on 10/22/2025 9:56:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: V_TWIN

DEI is awesome!


14 posted on 10/22/2025 9:56:50 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter.)
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To: V_TWIN

DEI will never let you down


15 posted on 10/22/2025 10:00:09 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: V_TWIN

All these women were too busy takling about each other to be concerned with their jobs.


16 posted on 10/22/2025 10:10:24 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: V_TWIN

Girls don’t watch enough NASCAR races to see the mechanics change tires, so they think there’s plenty of time ‘to catch a thief.’


17 posted on 10/22/2025 10:12:17 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Midwesterner53
All these women were too busy takling about each other to be concerned with their jobs.

Perhaps. Since it's France we can probably rule out that they weren't taking time out to shave their armpits.

18 posted on 10/22/2025 10:13:43 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Liz

NOT CONVINCED THAT IS A BIOLOGICAL FEMALE


19 posted on 10/22/2025 10:15:33 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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The aforementioned video:

https://x.com/CultureExploreX/status/1979937710132326403


20 posted on 10/22/2025 10:16:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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