Four more people have been arrested for suspected involvement in October’s Louvre jewel heist, authorities in Paris have announced. The two men and two women bring to eight the total number of suspects who have been arrested in the wake of the $100 million theft from the world’s busiest museum. The Paris prosecutor’s office told CNN that the two men and two women, aged from 31 to 40, were all from the city. One of the four suspects is the alleged fourth member of the gang that carried out the heist, according to CNN affiliateBFMTV. The other three are suspected to be complicit. The charges they will face have not yet been announced. Four other suspects were arrested in late October. Three were charged with organized robbery, while the fourth, a woman, was accused of complicity in organized theft. The thieves raided the Apollo Gallery on the top floor of the Louvre on October 19, using a cherry picker to enter through a window. They disabled security cameras using the system’s password: “Louvre.” The stolen jewels, which include the tiara of France’s least empress, Napoleon III’s wife Eugénie de Montijo, have yet to be recovered, the prosecutor said.
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