Four more arrested in Louvre jewel heist, authorities say

The Paris authoritative announced that 4 much suspects person been arrested successful transportation with past month's heist astatine the Louvre Museum successful which thieves escaped with jewels worthy $102 million.

Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose bureau is heading the investigation, said 2 men and 2 women are successful custody who scope successful property from 31 to 40, according to The Associated Press. 

The AP noted that Beccuau did not accidental what relation the suspects are accused of playing successful the historical heist.

Louvre manager Laurence des Cars antecedently acknowledged determination was a "terrible failure" successful depository information and said, "Despite our efforts, contempt our hard enactment connected a regular basis, we failed," The Guardian reported.

NEW DETAILS ABOUT LOUVRE HEIST REVEALED AS OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE STRICTER SECURITY MEASURES

A constabulary car parks successful the courtyard of the Louvre Museum, 1 week aft the robbery, connected Oct. 26, 2025, successful Paris. (Thomas Padilla, File/AP Photo)

Des Cars admitted that information astir the Louvre's perimeter was an contented and that the lone camera monitoring the extracurricular of the depository was facing distant from the balcony that led to the assemblage wherever the precious jewels were kept, according to reports. The Guardian besides noted that des Cars confirmed each the museum's alarms were functioning during the burglary.

Recently, des Cars shared the details of the museum's heightened information measures with the Committee of Cultural Affairs of the National Assembly, the AP reported. 

The Louvre manager besides shared that the robbers utilized disc cutters to get into the show cases to instrumentality the loot. She said that portion the show cases were replaced successful 2019 to support against limb attacks, the method utilized by the pack of thieves successful the Oct. 19 heist was "not imagined astatine all."

This photograph provided connected Thursday Oct. 23, 2025, by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewels stolen successful the Louvre Museum connected Sunday Oct. 19, 2025, successful Paris.  (Interpol via AP)

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Beccuau has antecedently stated that the thieves appeared to usage a truck-mounted lift, the benignant movers usage for dense furniture, to get to the museum's 2nd level wherever they were capable to interruption into the Apollo Gallery successful wide daylight and bargain 8 jewels valued collectively astatine 88 cardinal euros, oregon $102 million.

The loot includes a diamond-and-emerald necklace Napoleon gave to Empress Marie-Louise, jewels tied to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense, and Empress Eugénie’s pearl-and-diamond tiara, nary of which has been recovered.

"We failed these jewels," des Cars said, according to the BBC. The outlet besides quoted the manager arsenic saying that nary 1 is harmless from "brutal thieves — not adjacent the Louvre."

Police unafraid the country extracurricular the Louvre Museum successful Paris wherever burglars utilized a truck-mounted moving assistance to scope a second-floor model and bargain royal jewelry valued astatine much than $100 million. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

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Preliminary charges person already been filed against 3 men and 1 pistillate arrested successful October successful transportation with the heist, according to the AP.

Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan and The Associated Press contributed to this report.