Prosecutor says no signal but of jewels taken in Louvre theft, as two suspects admit partial guilt

The Paris prosecutor stated Wednesday that not one of the French crown jewels stolen within the brazen daytime theft of the landmark Louvre Museum had been situated 10 days after the heist, and that the one two males detained up to now in reference to the crime had partially admitted to a task within the theft.

“I want to remain hopeful that (the jewels) will be found and they can be brought back to the Louvre, and more broadly to the nation,” Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau advised reporters.

She stated the 2 suspects in custody have been to be charged with theft and legal conspiracy after “partially admitting to the charges.”

French law enforcement officials stand subsequent to a furnishings elevator utilized by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on Oct. 19, 2025. 

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Dozens of detectives have been on the path of the 4 thieves, who used a cherry-picker elevate and slicing gear to interrupt right into a first-floor gallery on the world-renowned museum after which fled with the jewels.

However few particulars have emerged up to now about how investigators have managed to trace down the culprits, a few of whom wore balaclavas and high-visibility vests.

The 2 males who have been arrested Saturday in reference to the heist may very well be held solely till Wednesday night with out being formally charged beneath French judicial guidelines, and Beccuau stated they’d be introduced earlier than magistrates with a view to “charging them with organized theft, which carries a 15-year prison sentence,” together with legal conspiracy, punishable by 10 years. 

A supply near the case this weekend stated the lads of their 30s have been recognized to the police for committing thefts, and Beccuau stated they have been believed to be those who really broke into the museum gallery, based mostly partly on DNA proof.

The 2 males hailed from Seine-Saint-Denis, a area simply exterior Paris, and one was arrested as he was about to board a aircraft for Algeria, the supply stated, requesting anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to talk to the press.

After media stories of the detentions, Beccuau stated authorities had “carried out arrests on Saturday evening,” and confirmed that “one of the men arrested was about to leave the country” from the capital’s Charles de Gaulle airport.

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