{"id":104840,"date":"2025-10-26T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:35:08","slug":"arrests-over-theft-of-jewels-from-louvre-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104840\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests over theft of jewels from Louvre museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspects in the brazen daylight robbery of some of France&#8217;s crown jewels from the Louvre have been arrested near Paris yesterday evening, the Paris prosecutor has said, confirming an earlier report from newspaper Le Parisien.<\/p>\n<p>The theft happened in the French capital last weekend, when thieves broke into the museum using a crane.<\/p>\n<p>They then smashed an upstairs window stealing the jewellery from an area that houses the French crown jewels, before escaping on motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>A ninth object, the diamond and emerald encrusted crown of the Empress Eugenie, was recovered nearby, where it was dropped by the thieves as they fled.<\/p>\n<p>The thieves still made away with the eight pieces of jewellery worth an estimated $102 million.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum after a jewellery heist \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0023572f-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects was arrested at around 10pm local time last night at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to board a plane abroad, according to a Le Parisien report, which also stated that the second arrest happened long after in the Paris region.<\/p>\n<p>Items stolen include an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon Bonaparte gave his wife, Empress Marie-Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to the Empress Eugenie, which is dotted with nearly 2,000 diamonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspects in the brazen daylight robbery of some of France&#8217;s crown jewels from the Louvre have been arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-104840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}