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France’s Louvre director Laurence des Cars resigns amid the October jewel heist, ongoing security problems, labor unrest, and a probe into a decade-long ticket-fraud scheme, as President Macron signals a major modernization push for the museum.
Nine people were indicted in a decade-long €10 million ticketing scam at the Louvre, involving ticket reuse by guides and splitting groups to dodge controls; cash seizures were made and two Louvre employees were among the suspects, with a broader investigation potentially linked to Versailles; the probe began after the Louvre filed a complaint in 2024 and is ongoing.
A Texas man, Wicliff Yves Fleurizard, was arrested in Salt Lake City for boarding a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Austin, Texas without a ticket by using a photo he had taken of another passenger’s boarding pass. He faces one felony count of stowaways on vessels or aircraft. After being confronted by flight attendants, the plane returned to the gate, and Mr. Fleurizard claimed he had been on a snowboarding trip and needed to go home to see his family, stating that he had been given a Southwest Airlines "buddy pass" by a friend.