One of many males arrested on suspicion of stealing €88m (£77m) of crown jewels from the Louvre museum is a minor social media star with a ardour for motorbikes who has labored as a safety guard on the Pompidou centre, French media have reported.
Recognized by justice officers as Abdoulaye N, the 39-year-old man was arrested at his dwelling in Aubervilliers, the suburb north of Paris the place he was born, six days after the 19 October heist. He faces prices of organised theft and prison conspiracy.
A court docket in Bobigny, north of Paris, on Wednesday postponed his trial in a separate case through which he’s accused of damaging public property, saying the circumstances for a “serene” listening to couldn’t be met as a result of “media consideration and up to date occasions”.
Maxime Cavaillé, one of many legal professionals representing the suspect, mentioned his defence can be “extraordinarily vigilant” about “respect of the presumption of innocence” and goal to guard their consumer’s rights and privateness regardless of the extraordinary nature of the Louvre case.
4 suspects are in custody in relation to the theft, together with three thought to have been members of the four-man gang who used a stolen truck with an extendable ladder and freight carry to succeed in the first-floor window of the museum’s Apollo gallery.
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