{"id":146166,"date":"2025-10-26T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:01:09","slug":"two-men-arrested-over-louvre-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146166\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested over Louvre theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Two suspects have been arrested in relation to last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2025\/10\/19\/louvre-robbery-thieves-steal-pieces-of-jewellery-with-inestimable-heritage\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2025\/10\/19\/louvre-robbery-thieves-steal-pieces-of-jewellery-with-inestimable-heritage\/\">Sunday\u2019s heist of at the Louvre<\/a> museum in Paris, in which a gang of four men made off with crown jewels worth an estimated \u20ac88 million, French media has reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">One of the two suspects was about to leave the country and was taken into custody at Charles de Gaulle airport at about 10pm on Saturday, Le Parisien newspaper said. The other was arrested later in the evening in the Seine-St-Denis suburb north of Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Paris police were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Thieves stole eight precious pieces  from the Louvre\u2019s collection on October 19th, exposing security lapses at the world\u2019s most-visited museum. The gang pulled up outside the museum at 9.30am last Sunday in a stolen furniture removal truck fitted with an extending ladder and lift, in which two of them mounted to the first-floor Apollo gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Wearing hi-vis vests to resemble construction workers, they smashed an unsecured window and then used disc cutters to open two display cases in the ornate gallery before descending in the bucket lift and making their escape on the back of motorbikes driven by the other two members of the gang<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">News of the robbery reverberated around the world, prompting soul-searching in France over what some regarded as a national humiliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">According to Le Parisien, the two arrested men are in their 30s and originally from the Seine-Saint-Denis area. They were known to French police, and one of the suspects was about to depart for Algeria, the newspaper said. &#8211; Guardian and Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/10\/26\/louvre-heist-thieves-take-note-irish-crown-jewels-were-never-found-and-culprits-never-caught\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louvre heist thieves take note: Irish crown jewels were never found and culprits never caughtOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects have been arrested in relation to last Sunday\u2019s heist of at the Louvre museum in Paris,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,2220,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-146166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115440365259103306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}