View 4 Images

Two individuals have been nicked in connection with the audacious seven-minute robbery at the Louvre Museum, which saw eight of France's priceless crown jewels nicked.

One of the suspects was reportedly nabbed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport while trying to catch a flight just days after the "highly organised" daylight heist, which saw a gang make off with £76 million worth of jewellery. According to local reports, the suspected robber was attempting to board a flight to Algeria.

The Louvre was plunged into lockdown on Sunday morning moments after the gang, kitted out in high-vis vests, used a mechanical ladder on the back of a lorry to hoist them to a first-floor balcony - where they smashed through a window of the Galerie d'Apollon using power tools, before making the

See Full Page