This photograph supplied Thursday Oct. 23, 2025 by Interpol and brought from its web site exhibits the jewels stolen within the Louvre museum on Sunday Oct.19, 2025 in Paris.
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PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor stated on Sunday that a lot of suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum final weekend.
The prosecutor stated that investigators made the arrests on Saturday night, including that one of many males taken into custody was making ready to go away the nation from Roissy Airport.
French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and brought into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau didn’t verify the variety of arrests.
Thieves took lower than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) in a weekend heist on the world’s most visited museum — a criminal offense that has shocked the world.
French officers described how the intruders used a basket elevate to scale the Louvre’s façade, pressured open a window, smashed show instances and fled final Sunday morning. The museum’s director known as the incident a “horrible failure.”
Beccuau stated investigators from the anti-gang brigade made the arrests. She rued in her assertion the untimely leak of data, saying it might hinder the work of over 100 investigators “mobilized to get well the stolen jewels and apprehend the entire perpetrators.”
