French police arrested two men suspected of participating in the spectacular jewelry theft at the Louvre museum, officials said Sunday.
It is suspected that Both were part of the command of four individuals that last Sunday they stole, in a matter of minutes, eight crown jewels of France with an estimated value of more than 100 million dollars.
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The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, indicated that the arrests They were held on Saturday night.
“One of the arrested men was about to leave the country” from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, he indicated, confirming information disseminated by French media.
A source told the media that the suspect was preparing to board a flight to Algeria. The second was arrested shortly after in the Paris region, according to the newspaper Le Parisien.
Both were taken into police custody for robbery in an organized gang and criminal association.
Beccuau regretted that the news of the arrests had been made public, warning that “it can only hinder the work of the “100 investigators mobilized to recover the stolen jewelry and find all those involved.”
The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, also asked for discretion, although happily in X to the investigators “who worked tirelessly.”
The thieves entered the museum thanks to a forklift installed in the street, opened the display cases where the jewelry was found with a disc saw and fled on a motorcycle.
Among the jewels that were taken, a pearl diadem that belonged to Empress Eugenia and a set of sapphire necklace and earrings from Queen María Amelia stand out.
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