{"id":259250,"date":"2025-10-29T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:01:08","slug":"louvre-museum-102-million-crown-jewels-stolen-2-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259250\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Museum $102 million crown jewels stolen, 2 suspects arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Authorities have yet to recover the jewels stolen from the Louvre<\/a> Museum despite the arrest of two suspects in the case, French investigators announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Four thieves broke into the Louvre on October 19 and made off with an estimated $102 million worth<\/a> of crown jewels, with the heist lasting less than 10 minutes. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau delivered an update on the investigation to the press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“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”, Beccuau said.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that the robbery was an inside job, according to Beccuau. Authorities made the two arrests on Saturday, with one of the men attempting to board a plane to Algeria. Beccuau said that the suspects in custody have at least in part recognized their involvement in the heist, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

LOUVRE MUSEUM CLOSED AFTER ROBBERY, FRENCH OFFICIAL SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n

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A police car parks in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum, one week after the robbery, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thomas Padilla)<\/p>\n

The crew of thieves used a basket lift to scale the Louvre\u2019s fa\u00e7ade<\/a>, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled, according to French officials. The Louvre’s director, Laurence des Cars, acknowledged there was a “terrible failure” in the museum’s security.<\/p>\n

Beccuau said investigators from a special police unit in charge of armed robberies, serious burglaries and art thefts made the arrests. She said the premature leak of information could hinder the work of over 100 investigators “mobilized to recover the stolen jewels<\/a> and apprehend all of the perpetrators.”<\/p>\n

BRAZEN LOUVRE ROBBERY CREW MAY HAVE BEEN HIRED BY COLLECTOR, PROSECUTOR SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n

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People queue outside the Louvre Museum three days after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/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. They also stole an emerald necklace and earrings tied to Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s second wife, and a reliquary brooch. Empress Eug\u00e9nie\u2019s diamond diadem and her large corsage-bow brooch \u2014 an imperial ensemble of rare craftsmanship \u2014 were also part of the loot.<\/p>\n

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Police officers block an access to the Louvre Museum after a robbery Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

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Eug\u00e9nie\u2019s emerald-set imperial crown with more than 1,300 diamonds was later found outside the museum, damaged but recoverable.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities have yet to recover the jewels stolen from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,107222,229,88,594,4477],"class_list":{"0":"post-259250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-crime-world","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259250","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=259250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}