PARIS: French authorities on Tuesday (Nov 25) arrested 4 extra folks within the probe into final month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the highest Paris prosecutor mentioned.
“They’re two males aged 38 and 39, and two ladies aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris area,” Laure Beccuau mentioned, following earlier expenses in opposition to 4 others over the Oct 19 heist.
Final month, a four-strong gang raided the Louvre, the world’s most-visited artwork museum, in broad daylight, taking simply seven minutes to steal jewelry price an estimated US$102 million earlier than fleeing on scooters.
The thieves parked a shifting truck with a ladder under the museum’s Apollo Gallery housing the French crown jewels, ascended in a bucket, broke a window and used angle grinders to chop into glass show cubicles containing the treasures.
The 4 already charged over the theft embody three males and a lady.
A kind of males, a 37-year-old, was in a relationship with the girl and so they have kids, Beccuau mentioned earlier this month.
The thieves dropped a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that when belonged to Empress Eugenie, the spouse of Napoleon III, as they escaped.
However they made off with eight different gadgets of jewelry, together with an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second spouse, Empress Marie-Louise.
The loot has nonetheless not been discovered.
