Paris prosecutors announced that four more suspects have been arrested in connection with last month’s heist at the Louvre, in which thieves escaped with jewelry worth $102 million.
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation, said two men and two women, ranging in age from 31 to 40, are in custody, according to The Associated Press.
The AP noted that Beccuau did not say what role the suspects would play in the historic robbery.
Louvre director Laurence des Cars previously acknowledged there had been a “terrible failure” in museum security, saying: “Despite our efforts, despite our daily hard work, we have failed.” The Guardian reported this.
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A police park in the courtyard of the Louvre, a week after the robbery, on October 26, 2025, in Paris. (Thomas Padilla, File/AP Photo)
Des Cars admitted that security around the Louvre was an issue and that the only camera monitoring the exterior of the museum was looking away from the balcony leading to the gallery where the precious jewels were kept, according to reports. The Guardian also noted that Des Cars confirmed that all of the museum’s alarms were functioning during the burglary.
Recently, des Cars shared details of the museum’s increased security measures with the National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee, the AP reported.
The director of the Louvre also said that the robbers used disc knives to enter the display cases and take the loot. She said that although the display cases were replaced in 2019 to protect against gun attacks, the method used by the gang of thieves in the October 19 heist was “not devised at all”.
This photo, provided by Interpol on Thursday, October 23, 2025 and taken from its website, shows the jewelry stolen from the Louvre on Sunday, October 19, 2025 in Paris. (Interpol via AP)
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Beccuau has previously stated that the thieves appeared to use a truck-mounted elevator, the kind that movers use for heavy furniture, to get to the museum’s second floor, where they were able to break into the Apollo Gallery in broad daylight and steal eight jewelry pieces with a combined value of 88 million euros, or $102 million.
The loot includes a diamond and emerald necklace that Napoleon gave to Empress Marie-Louise, jewelry tied to 19th-century queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense, and Empress Eugénie’s tiara with pearls and diamonds, none of which have been recovered.
“We failed these jewels,” Des Cars said the BBC. The outlet also quoted the director as saying that no one is safe from “brutal thieves — not even the Louvre.”
Police have secured the area outside the Louvre in Paris, where burglars used a truck-mounted moving elevator to reach a second-floor window and steal royal jewelry worth more than $100 million. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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According to the AP, preliminary charges have already been filed against three men and one woman arrested in October in connection with the robbery.
