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many people has been arrested for theft of precious jewelery From the Louvre museum in Paris, the city prosecutor said.
priceless crown jewel The world’s most famous museum was taken by four thieves last weekend power tools Entered the building in broad daylight. The robbery reportedly occurred at 9.30 a.m. local time and lasted for several minutes.
According to this, two suspects were arrested on Saturday evening in the Seine-Saint Denis area of northern Paris. The Parisian. The newspaper reported that he was being held in police custody as part of an investigation led by the Paris Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) and the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods (OCBC) for “theft in an organized gang” and “collaboration of criminals to commit a crime”.
Paris prosecutor Laure Becuau did not confirm the number of arrests. The prosecutor’s office said one of those arrested was about to leave the country at Charles de Gaulle Airport. A source close to the investigation told BFMTV that he was headed to Algeria.
Another was arrested later in the evening in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb north of Paris, according to French media.
A group of four thieves broke into the Galerie d’Apollon, which houses the remains of the French crown jewels, and stole nine jewels, using a scooter to escape.
Interior Minister Laurent Núñez described the incident as a “major robbery” involving “jewelry that has real heritage value and is, in fact, priceless”.
The French Ministry of Culture confirmed that the stolen items included a tiara, necklace and an earring from the set of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense, an emerald necklace and a pair of emerald earrings from the Empress Marie Louise set, a brooch known as the “relic brooch”, a tiara belonging to Empress Eugénie and a large corsage bow brooch belonging to the Empress. Eugenie.
According to the museum’s website, the crown of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense’s set is “composed of five articulated elements, each with a large sapphire at the top. Overall [there are] 24 sapphires, of which 10 [are] very small, and 1,083 diamonds,
The Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense sapphire set belonged to the wife of King Louis-Philippe, while the Empress Marie Louise emerald set was a gift to Napoleon’s second wife.
The Empress Eugénie tiara, the large corsage brooch and the “relic brooch” were part of the collection of Napoleon III’s wife, created in the 1850s. The Eugenie brooch alone has 2,438 diamonds.
Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the robbery lasted less than four minutes. He said footage of the operation showed that thieves “don’t target people, they enter quietly in four minutes, break the display case, take their stuff and leave”.
TF1 quoted him as saying, “No violence, very professional.”
The Louvre, which attracts thousands of visitors a day, was closed for the day for “exceptional reasons”.