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5 Louvre museum robbers held in Paris

By A Correspondent, LONDON
October 30, 2025
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Five new suspects have been intercepted in the Louvre crown jewel heist, the Paris prosecutor has confirmed, a day after prosecutors said two other suspects had “partially” admitted to charges of theft and conspiracy.

DNA samples gathered from a leftover helmet near the crime scene, as the police claimed, earlier had helped the arrests of the first two suspects three days ago, and the same eased the arrest of another one, according to Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, who told that he was “one of the objectives of the investigators”.

On the morning of October 19, as visitors roamed the halls of the world’s most-visited museum, a group of intruders broke into the Apollo Gallery through an upstairs window and snatched eight pieces of priceless jewellery in a four-minute heist that has reverberated through the art world.