Overview
- Paris prosecutors charged a 37-year-old man with organized theft and conspiracy and a 38-year-old woman with complicity, and both were remanded in custody after denying involvement.
- The total number of arrests stands at seven, with three of the five people detained this week released without charge.
- Two earlier suspects — a 34-year-old Algerian stopped at Charles de Gaulle Airport and a 39-year-old unlicensed taxi driver from Aubervilliers — were charged after partial admissions, with DNA linking them to a getaway scooter and a display case.
- Forensic work has been central to the probe, including DNA found in the truck’s lift basket tying the newly charged couple to the operation, as investigators pursue other participants and examine whether a buyer commissioned the theft.
- The eight Napoleonic-era jewels remain missing except for an imperial crown recovered damaged outside the museum, intensifying scrutiny of security failures at the Louvre.