another of the detainees has been released

A 38-year-old woman was charged this Saturday with complicity in the theft of jewelry at the Louvre museumlast October 19, while another of those arrested last Wednesday was released without charges, judicial sources indicated.

It is about two of the five arrested last Thursday in relation to the theft of jewels, valued at 88 million euros, some of which were presented before a judge after two days of interrogations.

Neighbor of the Courneuve, municipality of the east of Paris, The woman is accused of complicity in robbery in an organized gang and association of criminals and now appears before another judge who must determine whether to place her in preventive detention as requested by the Prosecutor’s Office.

“She is devastated, she denies the facts accused of her and she doesn’t understand anything”his lawyer, Adrien Sorrentino, assured the media.

The Prosecutor’s Office He assured that he will give more details throughout the day, when the other two detainees are scheduled to be presented before the judge.

For now The role that the woman is accused of in the robbery operation is unknown.which took place on October 19 and in which four individuals directly participated.

According to the BFMTV network, one of the four arrested last Wednesday He is suspected of having participated directly in the robbery, since traces of his DNA were found in some of the elements used for the robbery, an extreme not officially confirmed.

The end of the interrogations of those arrested before the end of the 96-hour period that the law authorizes is interpreted as progress in the investigations in relation to them.

This new accusation It joins those of the first two detainees in relation to that robbery, who were arrested last Sunday, a week after the spectacular theft of historical jewels valued at 88 million euros.

According to the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, The first two detainees are suspected of having participated in the robbery, since investigators found traces of his DNA at the crime scene and “partially” confessed to his participation.

One of them was detained at the Charles de Gaulle airport, when he was preparing to take a plane to Algeria, his native country, which precipitated the police operation. The other was arrested near his home in Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris.

Among the last five detainees is a person who was “in the spotlight” of the investigators also for their alleged direct participation in the robbery, the prosecutor said.

It would be missing the fourth member of the command who on the morning of October 19 He proceeded to a spectacular and quick robbery.

two of them They climbed to a balcony of the museum’s Apolo gallery thanks to a cranethey entered the interior, breaking a window with radial saws, with which They also broke the display cases that kept jewels from the French royal treasury. and they fled along the same route, on motorcycles on which the other two thieves were waiting for them.

The prosecutor specified that the jewelry has not yet been found.