{"id":537263,"date":"2025-10-30T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537263\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:08:11","slug":"five-new-suspects-arrested-in-connection-with-louvre-robbery-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/537263\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new suspects arrested in connection with Louvre robbery | Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five new suspects have been arrested in connection with the Louvre robbery<\/a> in Paris, in which thieves stole crown jewels worth an estimated \u20ac88m (\u00a376m), the city\u2019s public prosecutor has said, but the gems remain missing.<\/p>\n

Laure Beccuau told RTL radio on Thursday the arrests had been made on Wednesday night in the French capital and the surrounding area, particularly the neighbouring Seine-Saint-Denis department. But they \u201cdid not help us find the stolen goods\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n

One of the men detained \u201cwas a target of the investigators \u2013 we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery\u201d, Beccuau said. \u201cHe\u2019s one we had in our sights.\u201d The other four \u201ccan give us information about how the theft was carried out\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

Beccuau told a media conference on Wednesday evening that two men who had been previously arrested on Saturday night<\/a> had \u201cpartially admitted\u201d their role and would be charged \u201cwith organised theft, which carries a 15-year prison sentence, and criminal conspiracy, punishable by 10 years\u201d.<\/p>\n

The four-man gang pulled up outside the world\u2019s most visited museum at about 9.30am on 19 October in a stolen furniture removal truck fitted with an extending ladder and lift, in which two climbed to the ornate first-floor Apollo gallery.<\/p>\n

Jewels stolen from the Louvre. Composite: Louvre\/Alamy<\/p>\n

Wearing hi-vis vests to resemble maintenance workers, they smashed an unsecured window and used disc cutters to slice open two glass display cases before descending in the bucket lift and fleeing on motorbikes driven by the other two men.<\/p>\n

The heist lasted less than seven minutes, with the two who entered the gallery spending three minutes and 58 seconds inside. They dropped a diamond and emerald-studded crown but fled with eight richly gem-encrusted pieces.<\/p>\n

The stolen jewels included an emerald and diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave to his second wife, Marie Louise, and a diadem set with 212 pearls and nearly 2,000 diamonds that had once belonged to Empress Eug\u00e9nie, the wife of Napoleon III.<\/p>\n

Beccuau said the two suspects arrested on Saturday \u2013 one of whom was detained at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris<\/a>, reportedly as he was trying to catch a flight to Algeria \u2013 were believed to be the men who had entered the Apollo gallery.<\/p>\n

Their DNA had been found on a display case and a scooter used in the getaway, the prosecutor said. She added that it was possible the gang had numbered more than four men but there was no indication so far it had benefited from inside help.<\/p>\n

One of the pair, an Algerian national, was aged 34, had lived in France<\/a> since 2010, and was known to police for road traffic offences. The second was aged 39, born in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, and had convictions for burglary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five new suspects have been arrested in connection with the Louvre robbery in Paris, in which thieves stole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-537263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115462334225685891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}