"On Sunday, October 19, around 9:30 a.m., robbers broke into the Parisian museum's Apollo Gallery using a cherry picker and an angle grinder to steal nine pieces of jewelry worth an estimated $102 million in less than eight minutes. CCTV footage captured the thieves descending from a gallery window before fleeing the area on scooters. One of the nine pieces, a crown once belonging to Empress Eugénie, was subsequently recovered outside the Louvre and is expected to undergo conservation efforts."
"These arrests follow four others who were arrested in connection to the heist last month, with one still believed to be at large. (It is unclear if one of the suspects arrested on Tuesday is considered the fifth missing suspect.) 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."
Four local suspects aged 31 to 40 — two men and two women — were arrested and are being questioned in connection with the Louvre crown jewels theft; no charges have been filed yet. These arrests follow four earlier arrests, with one suspect still believed to be at large. Among previously detained individuals were a taxi driver and a delivery man/garbage collector who attempted to flee from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport to Algeria, and a domestic-partner couple with two children, whose female partner was placed under judicial supervision. CCTV shows thieves exiting a gallery window and fleeing on scooters after stealing nine pieces worth about $102 million; one recovered crown will undergo conservation.
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