US EditionLouvre heist probe still aims to 'recover jewellery', top prosecutor says
Paris prosecutor confirms arrests of four thieves but eight crown jewels worth $102 million remain missing; investigation includes tracking international art networks.
- On Oct 19, 2025, police say all four thieves were arrested after the robbery that seized $102 million in crown jewellery from the Louvre Museum's Apollo Gallery.
- Using a mover's truck with an extendable ladder, two of the thieves climbed up, broke a window, and used angle grinders on display cases while the four fled on high-powered motor scooters, dropping a diamond-and-emerald crown.
- Using international art‑world contacts, detectives say they benefited from intermediaries in the art world, including international contacts, and Beccuau said, `They have ways of receiving warning signals about networks of receivers of stolen goods, including abroad.`
- Prosecutors vowed to continue the search, with Laure Beccuau saying, `Our main objective is still to recover the jewellery`; a 38‑year‑old woman charged as an accomplice was released under judicial supervision pending trial.
- With motive unclear, eight missing items include an emerald‑and‑diamond necklace given by Napoleon I to Empress Marie‑Louise, and investigators say they have no signals indicating the jewellery crossed borders.
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New surveillance videos show the exact course of the crown jewel theft in the Louvre: In less than four minutes, the perpetrators hit display cases, museum supervisors hesitate - the loot worth 88 million euros has disappeared to this day.
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Louvre heist probe: What we know
Thieves in October broke into the French capital's world-famous Louvre museum in broad daylight, escaping in under eight minutes with jewellery worth $102 million.
The French television network TF1 revealed an unprecedented video of the security cameras of the Louvre Museum, in Paris, which records the time of the theft of Cora's joys, which occurred in October 2025. The images show one of the criminals captured, dressed in black and using a yellow collection, in front of one of the Gallery of Apollo's wines, space where the pieces were being displayed. More in Louvre: Vazation damages up to 400 works in t…
The show Sept à Huit broadcasts on Sunday new video clips of the burglary that took place on 19 October at the Paris Museum. Three months later, four suspects were arrested, but the crown jewels, estimated at 88 million euros, remain unobtainable.
The Paris prosecutor confirms that the investigation to find the happy ones of the crown is taking place while the alleged authors have been heard since mid-January.
"We have no indication that the jewelry has crossed the border," the Paris prosecutor general noted.
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