French authorities have filed preliminary charges against four individuals in connection with the theft of crown jewels worth $102 million from the Louvre Museum, with investigators still searching for a fifth suspect believed to be the mastermind behind the heist. According to Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, three of the charged individuals are suspected of direct involvement in the break-in. Two of them were previously convicted together in 2015 for theft, and all four live in Paris’s northern suburbs. The stolen jewels remain missing, while French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed that investigators are still pursuing leads to locate the organiser of the operation. In keeping with French legal norms, the suspects’ full identities have not been disclosed to protect the

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