A police operation launched last night as part of the investigation into the theft from the Louvre a week ago led to the arrest of two people.
According to information from Le Parisien they were part of the gang of 4 people who stole 9 precious jewels from the Apollo gallery, using a goods lift.
The two men arrested, according to information released by the Parisian newspaper, are originally from Seine-Saint-Denis, the northern banlieue of Paris.
These are two criminals, known to the police for thefts. They would be expert thieves, their profile is that of commissioned heists.
The two arrested were transferred to the premises of the anti-crime brigade, the detention could last up to 96 hours. The investigation continues to identify the other accomplices and the organization that set the operation in motion for a spectacular coup that had worldwide resonance.
“The two arrested were fleeing to Algeria and Mali”
According to information from the weekly Paris Match, the police operation as part of the investigation into the theft of the Louvre began last night at 10pm when one of the two arrested was already at the airport and was about to take a plane to Algeria. The accomplice, arrested later, was instead headed to Mali. This morning, in the premises of the anti-crime brigade, the man arrested at the airport is being interrogated. An attempt is being made to determine his role in the robbery, whether he was one of the four who directly carried out the theft of jewels worth 88 million euros. Among the various leads followed by the investigators, there is also that of a possible complicity of a member of the museum’s security team with the gang that carried out the robbery. The hypothesis was put forward last night by the English newspaper The Telegraph, which cited “sources close to the investigation”.