CrimeOct 27, 2025
Arrests Made in Louvre Jewel Heist CrimeOct 31, 2025
5 More Arrested in Louvre Heist, Jewelry Still Missing
The suspects were rounded up in Paris and its suburbs on Wednesday night, but none of the stolen jewels were recovered with them.
Interpol (the International Criminal Police Organization) added the eight jewels stolen from the Louvre Museum on Oct. 19 to its Stolen Works of Art database. Law enforcement authorities have arrested a total of seven individuals in connection with the heist, but the looted jewels are still missing. (Photo courtesy of Interpol.int)
Paris—Five more individuals suspected of being connected to the $100 million jewelry heist at the Louvre have been arrested while the eight jewels that were stolen still haven’t been recovered.
As of Friday morning, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office had not put out a formal statement on the additional arrests, but Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau discussed them as a guest on French radio station RTL Thursday morning.
According to a translation of the conversation posted to the RTL website, the five suspects were arrested around 9 p.m. Paris time on Wednesday.
They were taken into custody simultaneously at four different Paris-area locations—in the city of Paris proper, as well as in the suburban communities of Aubervilliers, Saint-Denis, and La Courneuve.
Beccuau told RTL that it was too early to release the suspects’ names, though she did say that one suspect’s DNA allegedly links him to the crime.
She also said that none of the stolen jewelry was recovered during this second round of arrests.
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As of Friday morning, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office had not put out a formal statement on the additional arrests, but Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau discussed them as a guest on French radio station RTL Thursday morning.
According to a translation of the conversation posted to the RTL website, the five suspects were arrested around 9 p.m. Paris time on Wednesday.
They were taken into custody simultaneously at four different Paris-area locations—in the city of Paris proper, as well as in the suburban communities of Aubervilliers, Saint-Denis, and La Courneuve.
Beccuau told RTL that it was too early to release the suspects’ names, though she did say that one suspect’s DNA allegedly links him to the crime.
She also said that none of the stolen jewelry was recovered during this second round of arrests.
The arrests made Wednesday bring the total number of Louvre heist suspects apprehended to seven, as two other men were arrested last weekend.
Beccuau said in a press conference held Wednesday that these two men have “partially” confessed, RTL reported.
The Louvre jewelry heist happened around 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 19.
Four individuals pulled up to the museum in a monte-meubles (a truck with a hydraulic lift most often used to move furniture), and two of them used the truck’s lift to access the second floor while the other two stood guard at the truck.
There, they used power tools to cut through a window and climb into the Apollo Gallery, the gallery that houses the Royal Collection of Gems and the Crown Diamonds.
The thieves targeted two display cases and made off with a total of eight jewels described by France’s Ministry of Culture as “priceless heritage objects.”
Beccuau specified Wednesday that the two men arrested last weekend are believed to be the ones who went up in the lift and smashed their way into the Apollo Gallery.
The eight looted jewels are now listed in Interpol’s (the International Criminal Police Organization) Stolen Works of Art database.
They are:
— A tiara worn by Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense;
— A necklace from a set of sapphire jewelry worn by Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense;
— One earring in a pair from Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense’s sapphire suite;
— An emerald necklace worn by Marie-Louise, who was Napoleon I’s second wife;
— A pair of emerald earrings worn by Marie-Louise;
— A reliquary brooch that belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte;
— Empress Eugénie’s tiara; and
— A large bow-shaped brooch worn by Empress Eugénie.
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