From 9:00 am, the museum’s usual opening time, the first visitors began entering the world-famous institution.
The audacious daylight robbery on Sunday shortly after the museum opened caused estimated losses of around 88 million euros.
Scores of investigators are looking for the culprits, working on the theory that it was an organised crime group.
They made off with eight priceless pieces, including an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his wife Empress Marie-Louise.
Disappointed tourists were turned away at the entrance of the Louvre in the heart of Paris the day after the theft.
“We were really hoping it would be open. We had booked for today, and we wouldn’t have had another chance to come,“ said one visitor, Fanny, who travelled from the south of the country with her daughter.
The theft reignited a row over the lack of security in French museums, after two other institutions were hit last month.
Nunez confirmed that “more than a hundred investigators” had been mobilised for the case.
Museum director Laurence des Cars has not made any public statement since the theft.
She became the first woman to run the Louvre in 2021 and is expected to be questioned about security at the Apollo Gallery.
The museum on Tuesday hit back at criticism that the display cases protecting the stolen jewellery were fragile.
Museum officials said the display cases were installed in 2019 and “represented a considerable improvement in terms of security”. – AFP
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