Published: 8:23pm, 26 Oct 2025Updated: 9:04pm, 26 Oct 2025
French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre in a museum heist that stunned the world, officials said on Sunday.
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Two men in their 30s and originally from the capital’s Seine-Saint-Denis suburb – which includes some of the country’s most impoverished areas – were detained on Saturday evening.
They were known to French police and one of the suspects was about to fly to Algeria from Charles de Gaulle airport.
There was no indication on Sunday that any of France’s stolen crown jewels had been recovered.
A swarm of investigators had been mobilised to track down the thieves who robbed the world-renowned museum in broad daylight on October 19, making off with jewellery worth an estimated US$102 million in just a few minutes.
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Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said they had “carried out arrests on Saturday evening”.