Four additional people were arrested in the Louvre theft investigation in October, Paris public prosecutor Laure Becuau announced on Tuesday, November 25. They are two men, aged 38 and 39, and two women, aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region, as determined by prosecutors, declining to specify before the end of their prison terms what they are accused of.
According to Parisianmembers of the fourth commando who carried out a spectacular robbery at a Paris museum on October 19 were among those arrested on Tuesday.
“Four people have been charged as part of a judicial investigation opened on October 29, 2025”just remember MI Because. Among them, three men aged 35, 37 and 39 are suspected of being part of a team of four criminals who entered the Paris museum on October 19. A fourth, a 38-year-old woman, is suspected of being involved.
On October 19, criminals wearing worker’s vests entered the prestigious Paris Louvre museum in broad daylight, using an electric ladder normally used for movement, after breaking a window. They cut through a shop window with a grinder and stole the crown jewels estimated to be worth 88 million euros, all in eight minutes.
While fleeing on a scooter, they dropped Empress Eugénie’s (Napoleon III’s wife) crown which was found broken.
This spectacular heist was commented on around the world and sparked debate about the security of the most famous museum on the planet. The loot has not yet been found.
Security controversy
The investigation is being carried out by the Bandit Repression Brigade (BRB) of the Paris judicial police and the Central Office for the Eradication of Trafficking in Cultural Property (OCBC), under the direction of the investigative judge of the special interregional jurisdiction (Jirs) of Paris.
Simultaneously with the judicial investigation, political controversy arose regarding the security of the Louvre. The Court of Auditors estimates the world’s most visited museum has “visible and attractive operations are preferred” to the detriment of security.
Faced with alarming dilapidation, the museum was the subject of an announcement earlier in the year by President Emmanuel Macron regarding a project. “colossal” to reduce congestion and modernize it, with new access, a special room for the Mona Lisa and more expensive admission for non-Europeans.
