The five arrests made on Thursday are in addition to those of two men last week, aged around 30, suspected of having integratedo the group of four men who carried out the robbery.
More dthat people, 37 and 38 years oldwere accused of involvement no assault to the Louvre Museum in Paris. The suspects had been detained on Wednesday.
Five people had been detained by the French authorities on Wednesday, in the region of the French capital, however three they were freed and two formally accused, according to AFP information obtained from police sources close to the case.
One of the new defendants now respond to “organized robbery” and “organized crime conspiracy”, while the other is accused of “complicity in robbery committed by an organized gang” and “criminal association to commit robbery by an organized gang”. They are therefore in preventive detention.
Os remaining three involved they went free.
O that the two suspects continue to deny involvement in the scam estimated at 88 million euros.
The five arrests made on Thursday are in addition to those of two men last week, aged around 30, suspected of having integratedo the group of four men who carried out the robbery.
One of them was caught at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport when trying to leave France.
The two people allegedly involved were formally charged and placed in preventive detention.
Four robbers took less than eight minutes to steal several pieces of jewelry valued at 88 million euros on October 19th.
Robbery in broad daylight
the thieves used a freight elevator to enter the museum, broke a window, entered the Apollo gallery where jewels from Napoleon III’s collection are on display and broke the display cases that protected the jewels with an angle grinder.
Were roEight jewels were worn, including Eugénie’s tiara, adorned with around 2,000 diamonds, as well as the sapphire necklace that belonged to Marie-Amélie, the last queen of France, and Hortense de Beauharnais, mother of Napoleon III.
