FROM CBS NEWS: Two people were arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum, a Paris prosecutor said on Sunday, a week after the brazen heist at the world’s most visited museum.
The prosecutor said investigators made the arrests Saturday evening, adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Paris’ Roissy Airport.
French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests and did not say whether jewels had been recovered.
A police official, not authorized to speak publicly, told The Associated Press that two known men in their 30s were arrested. One was arrested as he attempted to board a plane to Algeria. DNA traces identified one suspect. Forensics experts analyzed 150 samples at the scene.
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