Louvre heist: Two arrested after robbery at Paris museum - French media

Two radical person been arrested pursuing a robbery astatine the Louvre depository successful Paris which saw thieves flight with priceless jewellery, including portion of the French crown jewels.

French media reported that 2 men were taken into custody connected Saturday.

They are suspected to beryllium portion of the radical of criminals who utilized a cherry picker to scope a model successful the Apollo Gallery.

The arrested men are primitively from Seine-Saint-Denis, a bluish suburb of Paris, according to French regular insubstantial Le Parisien.

One antheral was arrested astatine Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airdrome astir 10pm by borderline constabulary and handed implicit to officers, arsenic helium was astir to committee a level to Algeria, French media is reporting.

They accidental the 2nd antheral was arrested soon after, besides successful the Paris region.

The cognition is understood to person been swiftly launched aft investigators, who had been monitoring the 2 individuals for days, realised that 1 of them was astir to fly abroad.

The 2 suspects are present successful pre-trial detention arsenic portion of investigations into "organised theft" and "criminal conspiracy to perpetrate a crime". The detention is expected to clasp for up to 96 hours.

Sky News has approached the French authoritative for comment.

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