Overview
- Paris BRB officers detained two men in their thirties on Saturday night, one at Roissy–Charles-de-Gaulle as he prepared to fly to Algeria and another in Seine-Saint-Denis.
- Both suspects are held on suspicion of organized theft and criminal conspiracy, with custody permitted for up to 96 hours under French law.
- The eight stolen Crown jewels, valued by the museum at €88 million, have not been found, while the Empress Eugénie crown was dropped during the raid and damaged.
- Forensic teams are analyzing more than 150 DNA and fingerprint traces lifted from abandoned tools, clothing and the truck-mounted lift used in the seven-to-eight-minute operation.
- Roughly 100 investigators from the BRB and OCBC continue the hunt for remaining perpetrators, as an IGAC review of Louvre security proceeds and the prosecutor criticizes premature leaks about the arrests.