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 have been detained late Wednesday evening 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 staff that robbed the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in broad daylight Oct. 19, the prosecutor mentioned.
Two different members of the staff have been arrested Sunday and given preliminary fees Wednesday of prison conspiracy and theft dedicated by an organized gang.
Each partially admitted their involvement, in accordance with the prosecutor.
“Searches final evening and in a single day didn’t enable us to search 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.
