Five new suspects have been arrested for their involvement in the robbery of €88 million worth of crown jewellery at the Louvre museum in Paris, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.
French police have arrested five new people, including a prime suspect, over this month’s jewellery theft from the Louvre, the Paris prosecutor said.
“We had him in our sights,” Laure Beccuau said of the main suspect, adding that none of the loot has been found.
The new arrests follow the arrest over the weekend ot two men suspected of breaking into the museum through an upstairs window and stealing the jewels.
DNA evidence linked the main suspect to the theft, the prosecutor said, suggesting he was among the four-man team that carried out the brazen October 19 heist.
“As for the other individuals who are in police custody, they are people who may be able to provide us with information about the course of events,” she said, adding it was “too early” to give additional details about the suspects.
Beccuau also said nothing suggests that the robbers had any accomplices within the museum’s staff.