This picture offered 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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Suspects have been arrested within the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris, with one apprehended at Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday evening, in line with the the Paris prosecutor.
In a press release, the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau confirmed the arrests. She additionally condemned the leak of data within the case, which she stated had compelled the authorities to disclose details prematurely, and which she claimed might hinder the work of over 100 investigators who’ve been “mobilized to get well the stolen jewels and apprehend the entire perpetrators”.
The brazen daytime heist on the museum final Sunday shocked France, when 4 males, dressed as workmen, broke intro an higher flooring window utilizing a ladder on a transferring truck. They reduce into glass instances with an electrical noticed and made off with over $100 million price of royal jewels from the nineteenth Century reign of Emperor Napoleon III.
In keeping with Le Parisien newspaper, the lads arrested are from the Paris suburbs. One was making ready to board a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport with a few of the stolen objects from the Louvre. One other suspect was arrested later within the night within the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb north of Paris.
French Inside minister Laurent Nunez praised “the investigators who’ve labored tirelessly, simply as I requested them to, and who’ve all the time had my full confidence.”
