This photo provided on Thursday, October 23, 2025 by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewelry stolen from the Louvre museum on Sunday, October 19, 2025 in Paris.

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PARIS (AP) — Several suspects have been arrested in the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris last weekend, the Paris prosecutor said.

The prosecutor stated that investigators made the arrests on Saturday afternoon and added that one of the detained men was preparing to leave the country from Roissy airport.

French media BFM TV and newspaper Le Parisien previously reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests.

It took thieves less than eight minutes to steal jewelry worth €88 million ($102 million) in a weekend heist at the world’s most visited museum, a crime that has shocked the world.

French officials described how intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre façade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled on Sunday morning. The museum director called the incident a “terrible failure.”

Beccuau said gang squad investigators made the arrests. He regretted in his statement the premature leak of information, stating that it could hinder the work of more than 100 investigators “mobilized to recover the stolen jewelry and arrest all the perpetrators.”