Two people have been arrested over the robbery of the Louvre Museum.
Three robbers stole £76million in jewels in just seven minutes, soon after the museum opened on October 19.
One of the individuals was arrested while trying to board a flight to Algeria from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Saturday night, French media reported.
The other person was arrested shortly after, on the same evening.
The authorities are currently questioning both.
The suspects, both believed to be in their 30s, are initially from Seine-Saint-Denis in the French capital, according to reports.
The thieves targeted a room in the Apollo Gallery, where what remains of France’s crown jewels is kept.
Two of the men entered the building through a smashed window and stole nine pieces from Napoleon and the Empress’s jewellery collection.
The Louvre Museum in central Paris has been closed after a robbery | GETTYOne stolen item was dropped whilst the thieves were escaping the building.
The museum, which is the most visited in the world, was forced to transfer its jewels to an extra-secure vault due to major security flaws.
They were sent to the Bank of France, just 500 metres away, under a secret police escort, where they remain in a vault 27 metres below the bank’s head office and home to France’s gold reserves.
The Bank’s “Souterraine” vault, described as “impenetrable”, has a half-metre thick, seven-tonne door and a 17-tonne cement block.
