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The prosecutor said on Wednesday that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening, adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport.
French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests.
Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at €88 million euros ($157 million) in a weekend heist at the world’s most visited museum — a crime that has shocked the world.
French officials described how the intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre’s façade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled last Sunday morning. The museum’s director called the incident a “terrible failure”.
Beccuau said investigators from the anti-gang brigade made 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”.
