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PARIS -- Four suspects in the Louvre heist have been handed preliminary charges and incarcerated, including three believed to ...

The Paris prosecutor said multiple suspects were arrested on Saturday evening, and hit out at leaks to the media.

Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and ...

Officials say suspects used a truck-mounted basket lift and power tools to carry out the brazen Sunday morning theft at the ...

Three of the four people whom the police believe carried out the theft have been arrested. But the jewelry is nowhere to be found.

The suspects are not professional gangsters, but small-time criminals from the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, authorities say.

The renowned Louvre Museum in Paris has been closed after thieves broke in and stole jewelry, French officials said on Sunday. The robbery took place early on Sunday as the museum opened, French ...

A 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man were charged on Saturday in connection with the heist, joining two others.

A group of thieves used a basket lift to break into the Louvre and stole jewelry shortly after the Parisian museum opened on Sunday, before escaping on scooters, French officials confirmed.