Today we focus on Article 3: Two suspects in the Louvre jewelry robbery in Paris.
Last week, one of the world’s most shocking jewelry robberies took place at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The robbers arrived at the scene around 9:30 a.m. and first “blocked” the area with an insulator, climbed the second floor of the balcony with a mobile truck equipped with a metal ladder, then cut the glass with a corner mill and stole eight precious collections worth about $1.02 billion in just four minutes. These items included the crown of the Emperor Napoleon and his wife, the golden crown of diamonds and pearls, the silver necklace with green gemstones, and a pair of historical relics such as the Marie-Louise necklace and an earpiece.
After the incident, the French police immediately launched a large-scale pursuit around Paris. On the evening of October 25th, two suspects around 30 years old were arrested one after another. They lived in Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, and there had been a theft case before. One of them, who held dual citizenship of France and Mali, was arrested while preparing to go to Mali, West Africa, while the other, who held dual citizenship of France and Algeria, was intercepted while trying to fly from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Algeria. It is reported that the police locked them through DNA evidence left on helmets, gloves and jackets left at the scene, then launched surveillance, and finally arrested them at the same time on Saturday night.
The Paris prosecutor's office said the two men are currently being detained by the case team, while the police are further pursuing their companions.But after the robbery, the investigation has focused not only on the suspects, but also extended to the inner ghosts that may exist inside the Louvre, after the robbed area of one-third of the room lack of surveillance, and the external surveillance is in the wrong direction, it is hard to explain.
The whereabouts of the stolen collection remain a mystery, and some people even speculate whether it has been disassembled into fragments, making it difficult to trace. At present, some of the Louvre's most precious jewelry has been urgently transferred to a 26-meter-deep vault underground of the Bank of France to prevent accidents. What makes people speechless is that shortly after the Louvre robbery, another French philosopher themed museum was stolen some gold and silver coins.