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A 38-year-old woman, who was arrested this week along with four other people in connection with the daring $102 million jewel heist at the Louvre Museum’s Apollo Gallery, home to the French Crown Jewels, has been charged with complicity to organised theft and criminal conspiracy.

The unidentified suspect, who lives in the northern La Courneuve suburb of Paris, appeared before a magistrate on Saturday, who decided to detain her.

The woman was in tears as she appeared at a Paris court, saying she feared for “her children" and for herself. The magistrate justified her detention of the woman on the grounds of a “risk of collusion" and “disturbance of public order".

In total, two of the five people arrested this week were charged on Saturday, while the other three ha

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