PARIS (Reuters) -French police arrested four further suspects on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the audacious Louvre jewel heist last month, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
The suspects are two men aged 38 and 39 and two women aged 31 and 40, and were being interrogated by police, the statement said.
It did not disclose what role the four are suspected of playing in the daylight robbery, in which four thieves made off with jewels worth $102 million.
Four other people were arrested and placed under formal investigation on October 29 and November 1.
The Paris prosecutor had previously said the robbery appeared to be the work of small-time criminals rather than professional gangsters.
The heist raised doubts over the credibility of the world’s most-visited museum as a guardian for its myriad works.
Two men parked a movers’ lift outside the Louvre one Sunday morning last month. They rode up to the second storey, smashed a window, cracked open display cases with angle grinders, and then fled on the back of scooters driven by two accomplices in a heist lasting less than seven minutes.
So far, no trace has been found of the stolen jewels.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Inti Landauro; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
