This photo provided Thursday October 23, 2025 by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewelry stolen from the Louvre Museum on Sunday October 19, 2025 in Paris.
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PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Sunday that a number of suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris last weekend.
The prosecutor specified that investigators had made the arrests on Saturday evening, specifying that one of the men placed in police custody was preparing to leave the country from Roissy airport.
French media BFM TV and newspaper Le Parisien earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, did not confirm the number of arrests.
Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal jewels worth 88 million euros ($102 million) during a weekend heist at the world’s most visited museum – a crime that shocked the world.
French authorities described how the intruders used a freight elevator to scale the facade of the Louvre, forced open a window, smashed the display cases and fled last Sunday morning. The museum director called the incident a “terrible failure.”
Beccuau said investigators from the anti-gang squad made the arrests. In her statement she deplored this premature leak of information, estimating that it could hamper the work of more than 100 investigators “mobilized to recover the stolen jewelry and apprehend all the perpetrators”.
