The claim that I will be fact-checking is, “progress is being made in the investigation as additional suspects are being arrested in the Louvre jewelry heist.”
There were many articles available that covered the Louvre heist, I assume because it was very shocking and happened recently, but I decided to use the New York Times article since it seemed to give a good, detailed summary of the events and was updated relatively recently. As well as having a reporter at the museum to get more details. The original author of the post used a news detective trustworthy source, so adding another to support the facts gives more support. The New York Times article reports there are four thieves who are believed to be directly involved in the heist. The police have three out of the four suspects, two of them are believed to be part of the actual robbery of the jewelry, and one of the two who they think was waiting outside the Louvre with motor scooters in the getaway. The $100 million jewelry that was stolen is still missing.
The heist happened on October 19th, and two of the thieves cut through a window located on the second floor of the museum and pulled the jewelry out of two glass cases in the Apollo Gallery. The thieves left the Louvre the same way they got in, which involved an electrical ladder that was mounted on a track, then they escaped on motor scooters, with the two accomplices waiting outside. The theft took less than ten minutes and happened during the day while visitors were inside. Four people have been charged by the Paris prosecutor overseeing the robbery investigation, three of them directly robbing the museum, and have been charged with theft by an organized gang. The one other person who is believed to be involved has yet to be caught by the police. The fourth person in custody is a woman and was charged with complicity in the crime; all four were charged with criminal conspiracy. The arrects were supported by DNA samples found at the crime scene. Out of the two suspects who are believed to be the ones who broke into the museum, one is an Algerian native and the other is a French native, both partially admitting to the crime during their custody hearings. The most recent arrest that was reported was a 37-year-old man who was one of the accomplices in the getaway, and the other was a woman who is allegedly his partner. Both denied involvement, but there is still further investigation being conducted since there are significant DNA traces of the man, but the DNA of the woman could be “transfer DNA.”
There were barely any cameras around the perimeter of the museum, and those that were outdoors were very old. A New York Times reporter counted there being 25 cameras on the perimeter and only five on the outer walls. The camera in the Apollo Gallery faced the opposite way from where the thieves entered. The thieves took eight pieces of jewelry, but dropped the ninth, which is a crown, and they deformed it when pulling it out of the case. Overall, both sources gave the same information!
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/louvre-museum-robbery-suspects-investigation.html
