Overview
- A Paris judge placed both arrested men under formal investigation for organized theft and criminal association and ordered their pre-trial detention.
- Investigators linked the 34- and 39-year-old suspects by DNA traces found on a getaway scooter and a shattered showcase, after arrests at Roissy airport and in Aubervilliers.
- Authorities say the eight jewels are still unrecovered, the recovered Empress Eugénie crown needs delicate restoration, and any buyer would commit criminal receipt; the haul has been reported at about €88 million.
- Footage confirms four perpetrators took part, with no evidence at this stage of inside complicity at the Louvre, and inquiries continue into possible organizers and recipients.
- Police reconstructed an eight-minute operation using a stolen aerial lift and a disc cutter before a scooter escape, as a national intelligence note warns of a rising criminal threat to museums and cultural sites.