French investigators are analysing DNA samples and fingerprints on tools and other items found at the scene
French investigators are analysing more than 150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other traces from tools and safety gear left by the thieves who broke into the Louvre museum and escaped with crown jewels worth an estimated €88m (£76m).
Five days after the brazen heist from the world’s most-visited museum, Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, said she had “a small hope” the jewels could still be recovered and was “optimistic” about the investigation’s outcome.
She expected that “in the next few days, results will perhaps provide us with leads, particularly if the perpetrators have criminal records”, she told Ouest-France newspaper.
The gang of four pulled up outside the Louvre at 9.30am on Sunday, soon after it opened, in a stolen furniture removal truck fitted with a 30-metre (90ft) extending ladder and lift, in which two of them mounted to the first-floor Apollo gallery, which houses France’s remaining crown jewels.
