LONDON – Five more suspects have been arrested in connection with the October 19 jewelry theft at the Louvre museum in Paris, according to Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
The arrests took place on Wednesday in the Seine-Saint-Denis region outside Paris, although French authorities have not yet identified any of the suspects.
Beccuau, speaking on French radio station RTL, said the stolen jewelry has not yet been found, but that police believe one of the suspects arrested in yesterday’s raid could be a significant person of interest because his DNA was found at the crime scene.
French police told ABC News that one of the suspects was already identified and had been under surveillance for a few days.
The new arrests bring to seven the total number of people detained in connection with the robbery. Two other people, both men in their 30s and from the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, were arrested last weekend, the French National Police confirmed to ABC News.
This photo shows CCTV cameras in Paris, on October 20, 2025, with the Louvre in the background, a day after thieves stole eight pieces of royal jewelry from the museum.
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Investigators said they matched traces of DNA evidence recovered from a helmet left at the crime scene to one of the suspects, allowing police to put the alleged thief under physical and telephone surveillance.
A suspect was arrested at 10 p.m. Saturday at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris while trying to board a plane bound for Algeria, according to police.
Investigators previously told ABC News that the second suspect was arrested as he was about to travel to Mali, but on Wednesday Beccuau said the man had no intention of leaving the country.
One of the suspects has dual citizenship in France and Mali, and the other has dual citizenship in France and Algeria, investigators said, adding that both were already known to police from previous robbery cases.
Investigators say they are still determining whether a source inside the Louvre may have played a role in the theft.
“They knew exactly where they were going. It seems very organized and very professional,” French Culture Minister Rachida Dati told ABC News last week.
