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On Wednesday, the prosecutor announced that authorities had apprehended suspects on Saturday evening, with one individual detained while attempting to board a flight at Roissy Airport.
Reports from French outlets BFM TV and Le Parisien indicated that two people had been detained, though Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not specify the exact number of arrests.
In a daring theft that stunned the globe, robbers made off with jewels valued at €88 million ($157 million) from the world’s most renowned museum in under eight minutes.
According to French officials, the burglars employed a basket lift to scale the Louvre’s exterior, broke through a window, shattered display cases, and escaped on Sunday morning. The museum’s director described the event as a “terrible failure.”
Beccuau revealed that the anti-gang unit was responsible for the arrests.
She rued in her statement the premature leak of information, saying it could hinder the work of more than 100 investigators “mobilised to recover the stolen jewels and apprehend all of the perpetrators”.