Overview
- The new arrests bring the total in custody to seven after two earlier suspects, aged 34 and 39, partially confessed and were placed in pre-trial detention.
- Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said one of the newly detained is suspected of having been on the break-in team, with DNA traces linking him to the theft.
- Searches have not recovered any of the eight stolen jewels, and the prosecutor warned that the items are unsellable and anyone buying them risks prosecution for handling stolen goods.
- Investigators are treating the case as organized band theft and are probing a wider network beyond the four people seen carrying out the raid in the Galerie d’Apollon.
- France is reviewing museum security after reported shortcomings at the Louvre, though officials say alarms worked and staff intervened; a damaged crown from Empress Eugénie was previously found near the museum.