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The announcement comes after it was reported that around 400 documents were damaged due to water leakage at the Egyptian Antiquities Library.

Louvre Museum employees protested against the deteriorating condition of the museum

The announcement came after it was learned that the flood also destroyed about 400 documents of Egyptian refugees.

Last January, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a plan for the "rebirth" of the Louvre museum.The head of state, impressed by the solemnity of a leader who tied his fate to the most important art gallery in the world, promised a major reform that would stop the decline of the museum, whose infrastructure, organization and maintenance were falling.Literally.A year later, the frenzy that gripped the Louvre was unimaginable at the time.major damage to a gallery with documents about the Egyptian period, the art gallery is going on strike that will start next December 15, a few days before the Christmas holidays.

On Sunday, all the museum's trade unions (CFDT, CGT and SUD) presented a renewed strike notice starting Monday, December 15, in protest at "degraded working conditions" and "inadequate resources," according to AFP.The proclamation was presented to the culture ministry and was unanimously approved by a general meeting that brought together "around 200 people" in the Louvre hall on Monday morning, according to the unions.

The union condemned what the museum's administration had announced a year earlier in a document leaked to the press: the Louvre was going through a process of unsustainable spatial degradation.In addition, workers' attention is focused on staff shortages and the management of President Laurence des Cars, who will head the organization from 2021, blaming "pyramidal and compartmentalized" management.Cross Culture, Rachida.

"The public now only has limited access to the works and is hindered in their movement. Visiting the Louvre has become a real obstacle course", they also noted.According to them, "several internal alarms have not been answered" and what was said "before the representation of the state in the media by the management of the Louvre does not allow us to expect awareness at the level of the crisis we are experiencing."For this reason, they ask for direct negotiations with the Ministry of Culture, "due to the unprecedented destruction of the social climate and the need to receive an answer from the internal authorities who are competent."

The last major presentation of the Lovre took place in the mid-1980s, when François' mrançois captured the Elysee Palace.Now, among other things, Ieoh Ming Pei, one of the most artificial and sad architects in the world, was sent to design with the visitors in an orderly manner.Then the celebrations ended.But the great tourism season began to start.And even this change does not respect current environmental and comfort standards.

Also, unions include "individual human resource management" and "counter-management".On June 16, the last social movement lasted several hours.This time, the strike may extend the time.

Meanwhile, police have yet to recover the stolen jewelry, despite several arrests and three suspects in jail.Their value of €88 million and the fact that they cannot be sold whole suggests that they may have already been dismantled.

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