The French Police arrested at least two suspects in connection with the audacious Louvre jewellery heist on Saturday evening amid dwindling hope of a recovery. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau also confirmed that suspects had been arrested without divulging details. She revealed that one of the men had been preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport when he was detained. It remains unclear whether any of the stolen jewellery had been recovered.
According to a report by Le Parisien newspaper, two suspects were arrested by the French police on Saturday evening. Sources told the publication that they were now being questioned. One of the two suspects was about to leave the country and was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport at about 10 pm on Saturday. Another suspect was arrested later in the evening in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb north of Paris.
Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) last Sunday morning.
The heist has electrified global media. Nightly newscasts from the US to Europe and across Latin America and Asia have beamed the Louvre, its Apollo Gallery and the missing jewels to hundreds of millions — a surge of attention some say rivals, or even surpasses, the frenzy after Beyonce and Jay-Z’s 2018 “Apeshit” video filmed inside the museum. The Louvre is once again a global set.