Two people have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, justice and police officials say, a week after the heist stunned the world and sparked a massive manhunt.

The Paris prosecutor said investigators made arrests on Saturday night (local time).

One of the men taken into custody was at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, preparing to leave the country.

French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests and did not say whether any jewels had been recovered.

A police official, who was not authorised to speak publicly about the ongoing case, told the Associated Press that two men in their 30s, both kn

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