Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, French media say.<\/p>\n
According to Le Parisien newspaper, the men were originally from the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, and one was preparing to board a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport.<\/p>\n
Items of inestimable value were taken from the world’s most-visited museum last Sunday, when four thieves wielding power tools broke into the building in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
France’s justice minister has since conceded security protocols “failed”, leaving the country with a “terrible image”.<\/p>\n
The gang reportedly arrived at 09:30 (06:30 GMT), shortly after the museum opened to visitors.<\/p>\n
The suspects arrived with a vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) via a balcony close to the River Seine.<\/p>\n
Pictures from the scene showed the ladder leading up to a first-floor window.<\/p>\n
Two of the thieves got inside by cutting through the window with power tools.<\/p>\n
They then threatened the guards, who evacuated the premises, and cut through the glass of two display cases containing jewels.<\/p>\n
A preliminary report has revealed that one in three rooms in the area of the museum raided had no CCTV cameras, according to French media.<\/p>\n
French police say the thieves were inside for four minutes and made their escape on two scooters waiting outside at 09:38.<\/p>\n
Security measures have been tightened around France’s cultural institutions, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, French media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-252393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}