Two suspects have been arrested a week after the brazen theft of jewellery from the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris, prosecutors confirmed on Sunday.
One of the suspects was stopped at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport as he tried to board a flight to Algeria, media reports said.
Another suspect was reportedly arrested in the Seine-Saint-Denis region.
The Louvre was evacuated and shut down a week ago after four masked thieves broke into the Apollo Gallery, home to France’s remaining crown jewels.
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They broke into two display cases and made off with eight pieces of jewellery once owned by French queens and empresses, with an estimated value of €88 million ($102 million).
On Friday, prosecutors said investigators had recovered more than 150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other clues at the scene of the heist.