{"id":103829,"date":"2025-10-27T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:08:14","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-over-jewel-theft-from-paris-louvre-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103829\/","title":{"rendered":"Two suspects arrested over jewel theft from Paris’ Louvre museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels<\/a> from Paris’ Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said overnight, a week after the heist that stunned the world.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening (local time), adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.<\/p>\n

French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests and did not say whether any jewels had been recovered.<\/p>\n

Thieves took less than eight minutes last Sunday morning to steal jewels valued at \u20ac88 million (NZ$179 million<\/a>) from the world’s most-visited museum. French officials described how the intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre’s fa\u00e7ade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled. The museum’s director<\/a> called the incident a “terrible failure”.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A member of a private security company, centre, and visitors walk in the courtyard of the Louvre museum. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Beccuau said investigators from a special police unit in charge of armed robberies, serious burglaries and art thefts made the arrests. In her statement, she rued the premature leak of information, saying it could hinder the work of over 100 investigators “mobilised to recover the stolen jewels and apprehend all of the perpetrators”. Beccuau said further details will be unveiled after the suspects’ custody period ends.<\/p>\n

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez praised “the investigators who have worked tirelessly, just as I asked them to, and who have always had my full confidence”.<\/p>\n

The Louvre reopened earlier this week after one of the highest-profile museum thefts<\/a> of the century stunned the world with its audacity and scale.<\/p>\n

\"Visitors<\/p>\n

Visitors queue outside the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery on October 26, 2025 in Paris. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The thieves slipped in and out, making off with some of France’s crown jewels \u2014 a cultural wound that some compared to the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019.<\/p>\n

The thieves escaped with a total of eight objects, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century queens Marie-Am\u00e9lie and Hortense.<\/p>\n

They also took an emerald necklace and earrings tied to Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife, as well as a reliquary brooch. Empress Eug\u00e9nie’s diamond diadem and her large corsage-bow brooch \u2014 an imperial ensemble of rare craftsmanship \u2014 were also part of the loot.<\/p>\n

One piece \u2014 Eug\u00e9nie’s emerald-set imperial crown with more than 1300 diamonds \u2014 was later found outside the museum, damaged but repairable.<\/p>\n

\"Visitors<\/p>\n

Visitors queue outside the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery on October 26, 2025 in Paris. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

News of the arrests was met with relief by Louvre visitors and passers-by on Monday. <\/p>\n

“It’s important for our heritage. A week later, it does feel a bit late, we wonder how this could even happen \u2014 but it was important that the guys were caught,” said Freddy Jacquemet.<\/p>\n

“I think the main thing now is whether they can recover the jewels,” added Diana Ramirez. “That’s what really matters.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum, the Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-103829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}