US EditionTwo Louvre heist suspects had prior theft conviction together, Paris prosecutor says
- On Oct. 19, a four-person theft team stole historical jewels valued at $102 million from Paris's Louvre Museum, using a movers' lift to reach a second-storey window and fleeing on scooters in under seven minutes.
- Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the suspects are small-time locals from Seine-Saint-Denis and noted, "This is not quite everyday delinquency... but it is a type of delinquency that we do not generally associate with the upper echelons of organized crime."
- Forensic links tie the suspects to the lift and cases, as the 37-year-old man's DNA was found inside the basket lift and the 38-year-old woman's traces may reflect transfer; both had a 2015 theft conviction.
- All four suspects are now in custody and a 37-year-old man and 38-year-old woman were arrested Oct. 29 and charged Nov. 1 with criminal conspiracy and organised theft.
- Authorities say the search continues as police investigators probe the parallel market and possible money laundering, while Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez remains optimistic despite at least one perpetrator still at large.
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The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday that two of the suspects of the Louvre jewelry theft had already been convicted together for a robbery committed 10 years ago. Three alleged members of the team of four are currently in pre-trial detention.
After the spectacular Kronjuwelen-Raub in the Louvre in Paris a lot was speculated about the perpetrators. Professionals, even the "Pink Panthers", were suspected as actors of the coup. Now investigators have published first findings, which point in a completely different direction. Three of the four men, who allegedly carried out the burglary, are now in custody. The arrested suspects are not professional gangsters, but petty criminals, who com…
The suspects who have been arrested as part of the search for the Louvre thieves have been convicted and come from the petty-criminal milieu. Whether there are other backers is just as little known as the whereabouts of the jewels.
Paris, France. The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, said on Sunday that the spectacular robbery at the Louvre could be the work of petty criminals and specified that two of the suspects arrested are a couple with children.The Louvre takes drastic measures: this will be protected after the theft of $102 millionTwo weeks ago, a commando of four men entered the Parisian museum in broad daylight and within minutes stole jewels of the French crown of…
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