Le Parisien reports that French authorities have apprehended two individuals suspected of stealing the Napoleonic crown jewels from the Louvre:
Sous le feu des projecteurs internationaux, l’enquête judiciaire sur le casse du siècle au Louvre s’accélère. Selon nos informations, deux suspects ont été interpellés ce samedi soir et placés en garde à vue dans le cadre des investigations ouvertes pour « vol en bande organisée » et « association de malfaiteurs en vue de la commission d’un crime », pilotées par la brigade de répression du banditisme de Paris (BRB) et l’Office central de lutte contre le trafic des biens culturels (OCBC).
Translated:
Under the glare of international attention, the judicial investigation into the “heist of the century” at the Louvre is speeding up. According to our information, two suspects were arrested Saturday evening and placed in police custody as part of an investigation opened for “theft by an organized gang” and “criminal conspiracy with intent to commit a crime,” led by the Paris anti-gang brigade (BRB) and the Central Office for the Fight Against Trafficking in Cultural Property (OCBC).
They further report that the two apprehended lived in Seine-Saint-Denis. That’s one of the largest suburbs in metropolitan Paris. Two-thirds of those living there are “immigrants” in the French sense, mostly from North Africa. That means non-French citizens, likely in France illegally.
Given the political situation in France at present
if immigrants are determined to be responsible for robbing the Louvre, that will provide additional fuel for the anti-immigrant Rassemblement National (National Rally) and its allies.
