PARIS: French authorities on Tuesday (Nov 25) arrested 4 extra individuals within the probe into final month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the highest Paris prosecutor stated.
“They’re two males aged 38 and 39, and two girls aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris area,” Laure Beccuau stated, following earlier prices towards 4 others over the Oct 19 heist.
Final month, a four-strong gang raided the Louvre, the world’s most-visited artwork museum, in broad daylight, taking simply seven minutes to steal jewelry value an estimated US$102 million earlier than fleeing on scooters.
The thieves parked a transferring truck with a ladder beneath the museum’s Apollo Gallery housing the French crown jewels, ascended in a bucket, broke a window and used angle grinders to chop into glass show cubicles containing the treasures.
The 4 already charged over the theft embrace three males and a lady.
A type of males, a 37-year-old, was in a relationship with the girl and so they have youngsters, Beccuau stated earlier this month.
The thieves dropped a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that when belonged to Empress Eugenie, the spouse of Napoleon III, as they escaped.
However they made off with eight different gadgets of jewelry, together with an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second spouse, Empress Marie-Louise.
The loot has nonetheless not been discovered.
