French police detained two suspects in the jewelry theft at the Louvre Museum. According to the newspaper The Parisian and Paris Match magazine, one of the suspects was detained at Charles-de-Gaulle airport, near Paris, as he prepared to board a flight to Algeria. The second suspect was arrested shortly after in the Paris region, according to the same newspaper.
The two men in their 30s, both Seine St-Denis, a suburb of Paris, they were arrested for organized crime and criminal association, by a border police team and then handed over to the French judicial police team that is investigating the case.
According to Reuters the suspects are known to the French police and that the prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau, regretted the fact that information about the arrest had been publicized. “This revelation can only harm the investigative efforts of the approximately 100 investigators mobilized, both in the search for the stolen jewelry and for all the perpetrators of the crime,” said Beccuau.
Last Sunday, October 19th, a group of robbers dressed in security vests construction workers, It took just a few minutes to enter the Louvre Museum’s Apollo Gallery in a goods elevator, quickly break two of the three showcases installed at the end of 2019 to store jewelry and escape on a motorbike with eight pieces worth an estimated 88 million euros.
The attack on the most visited museum in the world, in the heart of Paris, generated strong political controversy and relaunched the debate on the security of French cultural institutionsafter images of the robbery were widely publicized in the international media.
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