The Louvre has suffered a leak in the area where it stores its most valuable paintings, a union representative said. The world-famous institution in Paris, France, saw water creep into room 707 of the Denon gallery on Thursday, where works by 19th-century French artist Charles Meynier and Bernardino Luini, a 16th-century Italian, are kept. “Due to a technical failure on the upper floor during the night, the area is closed to the public and a scaffolding has been set up,” the representative told Reuters. No damage report has been made public as of Friday. Leonardo da Vinci’s infamous Mona Lisa was confirmed not to be damaged, according to the New York Post. It is the second leak in the museum in three months, and comes just months after robbers broke in and stole priceless, irreplaceable treasures, before escaping on a cherry picker. On Thursday, France 24 reported that nine people, including two museum employees, had been arrested as part of a probe into a large-scale ticket fraud scheme.
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