<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Paris prosecutor says a number of suspects have been arrested over the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/louvre-museum-robbery-musee-du-louvre-closed-for-exceptional-reasons/aabe4c60-19e9-41da-930d-9763d1c095b4" rel="" target="" title="theft of crown jewels from Paris' Louvre museum"><span>theft of crown jewels from Paris' Louvre museum</span></a><span> last weekend.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The prosecutor said on Wednesday that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening, adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>French media BFM TV and </span><em><span>Le Parisien</span></em><span> newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/louvre-museum-robbery-jewellery-heist-paris-france/eb6491a8-6859-46d3-be0a-05bc91d44902" rel="" target="" title="The Louvre jewellery heist shocked the world. Investigators think it may have been an inside job"><strong><span>The Louvre jewellery heist shocked the world. Investigators think it may have been an inside job</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal jewels valued at €88 million euros ($157 million) in a weekend heist at the world's most visited museum — a crime that has shocked the world.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>French officials described how the intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre's façade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and fled last Sunday morning. The museum's director called the incident a "terrible failure".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Beccuau said investigators from the anti-gang brigade made the arrests. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/louvre-museum-robbery-suspects-arrested-over-theft-of-crown-jewels/2f3f79a9-725a-46c8-8c5a-304cd3f28f3b" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She rued in her statement the premature leak of information, saying it could hinder the work of more than 100 investigators "mobilised to recover the stolen jewels and apprehend all of the perpetrators".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to come.</span></em><span></span></div></div>