French officers arrest a number of suspects in Louvre crown jewel heist

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A number of suspects have been arrested in reference to the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris final weekend, French officers stated Sunday.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau stated that investigators made the arrests on Saturday night, together with one man taken into custody as he was about to depart the nation from Charles de Gaulle airport .

Beccuau didn't affirm the variety of arrests, although French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and brought into custody.

Thieves took lower than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million)— a heist that prompted a nationwide reckoning and shocked the world.

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A police automotive parks within the courtyard of the Louvre Museum, one week after the theft, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photograph/Thomas Padilla)

The crew of thieves used a basket raise to scale the Louvre’s façade, pressured open a window, smashed show instances and fled, in keeping with French officers. The Louvre's director Laurence des Automobiles acknowledged there was a "horrible failure" within the museum's safety.

The thieves slipped away with a complete of eight objects, together with a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to Nineteenth-century queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense. In addition they stole an emerald necklace and earrings tied to Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second spouse, and a reliquary brooch. Empress Eugénie’s diamond diadem and her massive corsage-bow brooch — an imperial ensemble of uncommon craftsmanship — had been additionally a part of the loot.