Four more suspects arrested in Louvre heist, prosecutors announce

Four more suspects have been arrested in connection with last month’s theft of Napoleonic jewels worth around $102 million from the Louvre Museum in Paris, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said two men and two women, aged 31 to 40, were arrested on Tuesday and are being questioned. All four suspects are from the Paris region.

Those arrests come in addition to the four people who have already been charged in the case, Beccuau said.

A group of thieves using a truck-mounted mechanical lift broke into a second-floor window in the Galerie d’Apollon of the Louvre Museum around 9:30 a.m. local time on October 19, after the museum had already opened its doors to the public.

Once inside, they stole the jewels before speeding off on motorcycles. Interpol later added the jewels to its Stolen Works of Art database.

Authorities first announced that two suspects were arrested on October 25, a week after the heist. One of them, a 34-year-old Algerian man, was preparing to leave the country from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport at the time he was detained. Both of those suspects have partially admitted their involvement.

Earlier this month, Beccuau said a 37-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman, believed to the girlfriend of one of the thieves, were also arrested and charged while a possible fifth suspect—the fourth man involved in the heist—remained missing. It was not immediately clear if one of the suspects arrested Tuesday was considered to be that missing suspect.

Police have not yet recovered the stolen jewels.

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