PARIS: French police have arrested 5 extra individuals, together with a chief suspect, over this month’s daring Louvre museum jewellery robbery, the Paris prosecutor mentioned on Thursday (Oct 30).
“We had him in our sights,” Laure Beccuau mentioned of the primary suspect, including that not one of the loot price an estimated US$102 million had been discovered.
DNA proof linked the primary suspect to the theft, Beccuau mentioned, suggesting he was among the many four-man workforce that carried out the brazen Oct 19 heist.
“As for the opposite people who’re in police custody, they’re individuals who might be able to present us with details about the course of occasions,” she mentioned, including it was “too early” to offer further particulars in regards to the suspects.
The 5 detentions passed off on Wednesday in and round Paris, notably in Seine-Saint-Denis, a area simply exterior the French capital.
