Overview
- Two new detainees — a 37-year-old man suspected of being in the commando and his 38-year-old partner — were charged on Saturday, bringing the total to four suspects in pre-trial detention.
- Three other people arrested in the same wave were released without charges after judicial review.
- Investigators cite DNA findings in the nacelle used for entry, on a getaway scooter and on shattered vitrines, with the woman’s trace possibly explained by transfer DNA.
- Prosecutors say two male suspects had already been convicted together in a 2015 theft, profiling the group as local repeat offenders rather than high-level organized crime, with no internal Louvre complicity established at this stage.
- The OCBC is probing parallel resale channels as teams continue wide-ranging forensic, video and telephony analyses, and authorities say at least one member of the four-man commando remains unidentified.