"French authorities have arrested four more people in connection with last month's daylight robbery of royal jewels worth $102m from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday that two men aged 38 and 39 and two women aged 31 and 40 were arrested as part of the probe into the heist, which saw thieves make off with eight items, including an emerald and diamond necklace given by Napoleon I to his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise."
"On October 19, two men parked a mover's lift below the Apollo Gallery housing the French crown jewels. They rode up to the second storey in a bucket, smashed a window and cracked open display cases with angle grinders. They fled on the back of scooters driven by two accomplices. All in all, the operation took less than seven minutes. Thieves dropped a jewel-encrusted crown that once belonged to Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III, as they escaped."
"The four already charged over the theft are three men and a woman. This month, it emerged that one of the men, a 37-year-old, was in a couple with the woman and they have children. The couple was arrested after their DNA was found in the basket lift used during the robbery. Beccuau said at the time that the man's criminal record contained 11 previous convictions, most of them for theft."
French authorities arrested four more people in connection with the $102m daylight robbery of French crown jewels at the Louvre. The suspects are two men aged 38 and 39 and two women aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region. The heist removed eight items, including an emerald and diamond necklace given by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise; a jewel-encrusted crown belonging to Empress Eugenie was dropped during the escape. On October 19, thieves used a mover's lift to reach the Apollo Gallery, smashed a window, used angle grinders on display cases, and fled on scooters in under seven minutes. DNA from a basket lift linked a couple among previously charged suspects; one man has 11 prior convictions.
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