5 extra individuals have been arrested within the investigation into the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum, however the treasures stay lacking, the Paris prosecutor introduced Thursday.
The 5 had been detained late Wednesday night time in Paris and the Paris area, Prosecutor Laure Beccuau instructed RTL radio.
She didn’t launch their identities or different particulars.
One is suspected of being a part of the four-person group that robbed the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in broad daylight Oct. 19, the prosecutor mentioned.
Two different members of the group had been arrested Sunday and given preliminary fees Wednesday of felony conspiracy and theft dedicated by an organized gang.
Each partially admitted their involvement, in response to the prosecutor.
“Searches final night time and in a single day didn’t enable us to seek out the products,” Beccuau mentioned.
It took thieves lower than eight minutes to steal the jewels valued at $102 million on Oct. 19, surprising the world.
The robbers pressured open a window, lower into circumstances with energy instruments and fled with eight items of the French crown jewels.
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