A model believed to person been utilized successful what the French Interior Ministry said was a robbery astatine the Louvre depository during which jewelry was stolen, successful Paris, France, connected Oct. 19, 2025.
Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters
Two suspects successful the brazen daylight heist of immoderate of France's crown jewels from the Louvre were arrested successful Paris connected Saturday evening and are being questioned, Le Parisien paper reported connected Sunday, citing sources adjacent to the investigation.
One of the 2 suspects was astir to permission the state and was taken into custody astatine Charles de Gaulle airdrome astatine astir 10 p.m. connected Saturday, the insubstantial said. The different was arrested aboriginal successful the evening successful the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb northbound of Paris.
Paris constabulary were not instantly disposable for comment.
Thieves stole eight precious pieces worth an estimated $102 cardinal from the Louvre's postulation connected October 19, exposing security lapses as they broke into the world's most-visited depository utilizing a crane to smash an upstairs model during opening hours. They escaped connected motorbikes.
News of the robbery reverberated astir the world, prompting soul-searching successful France implicit what immoderate regarded arsenic a nationalist humiliation.
According to Le Parisien, the 2 men are successful their thirties and primitively from the Seine-Saint-Denis area. They were known to French police, and 1 of the suspects was astir to depart for Algeria, the paper said.
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