A police car parks in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery, on October 26, 2025, in Paris. THOMAS PADILLA / AP
A 39-year-old man suspected of being part of the gang that staged the Louvre heist was remanded into custody on Tuesday, December 2, joining three others already in detention, French prosecutors said. Investigators say the man, who was arrested a week ago, was the fourth and final member of the masked gang that carried out the daring raid on the world's most-visited museum.
The jewelry they stole – worth an estimated $102 million – has not been recovered. French authorities now have four suspects in custody, charged with organized theft and criminal conspiracy.
The 39-year-old man was born in the working-class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis and has six previous convictions, including for pimping and receiving stolen goods, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said last week. His lawyers, Menya Arab-Tigrine and Farida Cagniard, told AFP on Tuesday they opposed holding him on remand, arguing the solitary confinement ordered for him and the Fresnes jail he was placed in threatened his "human dignity."
"At the moment, there is no evidence allowing one to say that he was at the scene (of the heist)," they added.
