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Five other suspects of jewellery theft at the Louvre Museum have been arrested

The authorities have specified that the jewels have not yet been recovered, but they are confident that they will be found and returned to the Paris art gallery.

FOTODELDÍA PARÍS, 22/10/2025.-Este miércoles el museo del Louvre de París, el más visitado del mundo, abrió sus puertas de nuevo, tras el robo de joyas que sufrió el domingo y que le obligó a cerrar las puertas a los visitantes. Las puertas del museo abrieron a las 9.00, como es habitual, en un momento en que cientos de personas estaban ya haciendo cola en el acceso de la pirámide. El Louvre había puntualizado el martes que esa apertura no sería completa, ya que la Galería de Apolo en la que se produjo el robo permanecerá cerrada "un cierto tiempo".- EFE/ Edgar Sapiña Manchado. — The Louvre Museum in Paris, the most visited in the world.

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2025/10/30 - 09:35

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Five other people have been arrested on charges of stealing jewellery from the Louvre, including one of the four alleged thieves in the gang that committed the robbery, according to Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau in an interview with RTL radio this Thursday.

PARIS (France), 29/10/2025.- (L-R) Head of the BRB Pascal Carreau, the Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau and Head of the OCBC Jean-Baptiste Felicite, hold a press conference, in Paris, France, 29 October 2025, attended by representatives of the BRB (Banditry Repression Brigade) and the OCBC (central office for combating trafficking in cultural property), to announce the opening of a judicial investigation into the Louvre burglary. The Louvre Museum was targeted in a robbery by several criminals who smashed windows to steal eight priceless royal pieces of jewellery on 19 October. (Francia) EFE/EPA/SADAK SOUICI

The five were arrested simultaneously in and around Paris. One of those arrested last night was "the target of the investigators" and they have "DNA evidence linking him to the robbery." He was one of the suspects we had at the jo-point, "the prosecutor explained.

The other four arrested this Wednesday "may provide information on the circumstances of the robbery," he added.

It is suspected that it was they who "entered the Apollo Gallery to steal jewellery," he said. The prosecutor added that "nothing suggests at this time that the authors were accomplices inside the museum." However, investigators do not rule out a much larger group than the four authors identified by the surveillance cameras, he said.

Beccuau has specified that the jewels have not yet been recovered, but that they remain hopeful that they will be found and returned to the Louvre Museum.