France on Friday charged the fourth alleged member of a four-person gang arrested over final month’s spectacular jewel heist on the Louvre, prosecutors mentioned.
On October nineteenth, the gang raided the world’s most-visited artwork museum in broad daylight, taking simply seven minutes to steal jewelry value an estimated $102 million earlier than fleeing on scooters.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau described the fourth suspect as a 39-year-old man born within the working-class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.
“Already convicted six instances, this man was recognized to courts for varied offences, comparable to pimping, driving with out a licence, and receiving stolen items,” Beccuau mentioned in an announcement.
The 4 suspects believed to have carried out the theft have now been arrested and charged. They have been charged with organised theft and legal conspiracy.
The stolen jewelry remains to be lacking.
The final suspected member of the gang was arrested on Tuesday at a development web site within the western French city of Laval, based on a supply near the case.
The different suspects already behind bars — males aged 35, 37 and 39 — are suspected of getting been a part of the four-person workforce.
Two of them entered the Apollo Gallery whereas the opposite two remained exterior, earlier than fleeing collectively.
A 38-year-old girl who’s the accomplice of one of many males is suspected of complicity. She has been launched on bail.
