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The Denon wing at the Louvre Museum experienced a water leak resulting from a technical malfunction on the upper floor, which necessitated the temporary closure of the exhibition space to visitors and the erection of precautionary scaffolding.
A union representative confirmed, in a statement reported by Reuters, that the area displaying Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting was not affected, while no official assessment of the potential damage has yet been issued. In a parallel context, the Paris Public Prosecutor's office announced the arrest of nine people as part of an investigation into a fraud network related to entry tickets, which is believed to have cost the museum, ranked as the most visited globally, losses of around 10 million euros. The arrests included two museum officials and a number of guides, in addition to a person described as the leader of the network, with significant sums of money seized in cash and in bank accounts. This development comes in a sensitive situation the Louvre is going through, after witnessing successive setbacks in recent months, from previous water leaks to cases of theft and internal investigations, which puts its administration under increasing scrutiny and raises questions about the management of this global cultural edifice.
