Overview
- A Paris magistrate ordered a 38-year-old La Courneuve resident into pre-trial detention on counts of complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy.
- A 37-year-old man was also charged with theft by an organised gang and criminal conspiracy, bringing the number of people charged in the case to four.
- Seven people have been detained in total, and three of the five arrested this week were released without charge, according to prosecutors and defence lawyers.
- The first two men charged, aged 34 and 39, were identified through forensic evidence, including DNA on a getaway scooter, and both gave partial admissions.
- Investigators say the jewels have not been recovered aside from a damaged crown dropped during the escape, and authorities have begun urgent perimeter and anti-intrusion upgrades at the museum.