‘Heist made it more exciting to go to the Louvre’: Tourists react as museum reopensVisitors have returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris, which reopened on Wednesday three days after millions of euros worth of jewellery stolen in broad daylight.
The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery – where the heist took place – remained closed.
The BBC spoke to tourists outside the Paris museum, who were eager to see where the heist took place.
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