"A man identified as Mehdy, who claims to be the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, told ABC News ' James Longman in an exclusive new interview for the television special "Impact x Nightline" that his cousin "was someone who did small jobs" and "worked in a place where they sell fruit, things like that, who tried to get by. And who had kids.""
"Of the four, one was a taxi driver and the other a delivery man and garbage collector, who was arrested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport while trying to flee on a one-way flight to Algeria. The other two are a man and woman who have been identified as domestic partners with two children together; the woman was recently released from police custody and placed under judicial supervision on Wednesday."
"But if I had to tell him something before he went to do that, really, if he truly did it and I speak in the conditional, I would have told him, you know these jewels, they belong to you, it's your heritage, if you want them you just have to go to the museum, you don't need to go through the window or anything."
Mehdy, who says he is the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, described his cousin as someone who did small jobs, worked selling fruit, and had children. Four suspects were arrested in connection with the heist, with one still believed to be at large. Of the arrested, one was a taxi driver and another was a delivery man and garbage collector who was detained at Charles de Gaulle Airport while attempting to flee to Algeria. Two suspects identified as domestic partners share two children; the woman was released under judicial supervision. The thieves are reported to be locals of Seine-Saint-Denis. On October 19, robbers used a cherry picker and an angle grinder to steal nine pieces of jewelry valued at about $102 million in under eight minutes.
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