Arrests made in Louvre jewellery heist by French police: Paris prosecutor

According to the Paris prosecutor, French authorities have made arrests in connection with the most recent theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

One of the men in custody was reportedly preparing to leave the country from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, according to prosecutor Laure Beccuau in a statement on Sunday.

According to the French newspapers Le Parisien and Paris Match, the airport’s arrest occurred on Saturday at 10 p.m. (GMT), and a second suspect was detained shortly thereafter in the Paris area.

The airport man was about to board a flight to Algeria, according to the newspaper. Both suspects, who were both well-known to French police, were in their 30s, according to the statement.

According to the AFP news agency, the two men have been taken into custody by the police on suspicion of organized theft and criminal conspiracy.

The police antigang brigade carried out the operation, but Beccuau did not confirm how many people were arrested.

She criticized the earlier disclosure of information about the arrests, citing the potential harm to the work of investigators who were attempting to “recover the stolen jewels and apprehend all of the perpetrators.”

Daylight robbery

In a four-minute heist in broad daylight that rocked the world’s most popular museum and was followed raptly around the world, an intruders robbed the Louvre Museum in the French capital on October 19 and shut it one week later.

The robbers had climbed a moving truck’s extendable ladder and slashed into a first-floor gallery, exploiting what museum staff described as a blind spot in the security surveillance of the museum’s exterior walls.

They escaped with a crown as they fled down a ladder and onto scooters, but Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife, Empress Marie Louise, was able to steal eight more pieces, including an emerald and diamond necklace.

The jewels, according to officials, were estimated to be worth $ 102 million but have an incalculable cultural value.

Difficulty investigators have been conducting a thorough manhunt for the thieves.

Beccuau claimed that surveillance cameras from both public and private cameras had enabled detectives to “follow the thieves in Paris and the surrounding areas,” as well as finding dozens of DNA samples and fingerprints on the scene.

The blatant theft, which the Louvre’s director described as a “terrible failure,” has caused controversy in France and caused a debate about the security of cultural institutions.

A museum in eastern France discovered a damaged display case within 24 hours of the Louvre heist, reporting the theft of gold and silver coins.