In a significant development, the Paris prosecutor revealed that four additional individuals have been apprehended in relation to last month’s audacious theft at the Louvre Museum. This heist saw burglars making off with precious jewels valued at an astonishing $102 million.

Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, who is overseeing the inquiry, stated that the individuals now in custody include two men and two women, aged between 31 and 40, as reported by The Associated Press.

While the Associated Press provided this update, it noted that Beccuau did not disclose the specific roles these suspects are believed to have played in the remarkable heist.

Louvre Museum’s director, Laurence des Cars, previously admitted to a “terrible failure” in the museum’s security measures. She expressed regret by stating, “Despite our efforts and hard work on a daily basis, we failed,” according to a report by The Guardian.

An image captured on October 26, 2025, shows a police car stationed in the Louvre Museum’s courtyard, just a week after the theft took place in Paris. (Photo by Thomas Padilla, File/AP Photo)

Des Cars admitted that security around the Louvre’s perimeter was an issue and that the only camera monitoring the outside of the museum was facing away from the balcony that led to the gallery where the precious jewels were kept, according to reports. The Guardian also noted that des Cars confirmed all the museum’s alarms were functioning during the burglary.

Recently, des Cars shared the details of the museum’s heightened security measures with the Committee of Cultural Affairs of the National Assembly, the AP reported. 

The Louvre director also shared that the robbers used disc cutters to get into the display cases to take the loot. She said that while the display cases were replaced in 2019 to protect against weapon attacks, the method used by the gang of thieves in the Oct. 19 heist was “not imagined at all.”

This photo provided on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025, by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewels stolen in the Louvre Museum on Sunday Oct. 19, 2025, in Paris.  (Interpol via AP)

Beccuau has previously stated that the thieves appeared to use a truck-mounted lift, the kind movers use for heavy furniture, to get to the museum’s second floor where they were able to break into the Apollo Gallery in broad daylight and steal eight jewels valued collectively at 88 million euros, or $102 million.

The loot includes a diamond-and-emerald necklace Napoleon gave to Empress Marie-Louise, jewels tied to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense, and Empress Eugénie’s pearl-and-diamond tiara, none of which has been recovered.

“We failed these jewels,” des Cars said, according to the BBC. The outlet also quoted the director as saying that no one is safe from “brutal thieves — not even the Louvre.”

Police secure the area outside the Louvre Museum in Paris where burglars used a truck-mounted moving lift to reach a second-floor window and steal royal jewelry valued at more than $100 million. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Preliminary charges have already been filed against three men and one woman arrested in October in connection with the heist, according to the AP.