Two of the suspects in the Louvre hit had already been convicted of robbery crimes in Paris a decade ago.

According to his statements to Franceinfothe four people accused They do not belong to the world of organized crimebut they are common criminals. Some, with family ties and criminal records.

According to the prosecutor, one of the suspects already arrested and sent to prison37 years old, was already “known” to the police and judicial services for a criminal history that reflects eleven convictionsten of them for robberies.

Became has assured that the 38-year-old suspect, who was also imprisoned last Saturday, is couple from the previous one, with children in common.

In the case of the woman, she has no criminal record, but she has been accused of her complicity in the crimes of robbery in an organized gang and criminal association that are attributed to the man.

Furthermore, the prosecutor points out that the accused He already participated in a robbery in Paris with another of the accused, 39 years old, for which both were convicted in 2015.

This second man, arrested last Wednesday, has similar background y fifteen accumulated sentences, two of them for robbery and aggravated robbery.

Outside of organized crime

In the same statement, the prosecutor points out that the four accused people were “close” and lived in the apartment Seine-Saint-Denisin the Ile-de-France region.

According to her, they were not “well-known profiles in organized crime.” However, he points out that they are thieves who are “rapidly rising in extremely serious” and “polymorphic” cases.

“This is not exactly everyday crime, but it is a type of crime that is not normally associated with the upper echelons of professional crime,” he explained.

According to his view of the investigation, the clues for now are not enough to conclude that there was “complicity” from inside the museum.

Jewelry

Far from fueling optimism about recovery of the extracted assets, the prosecutor assured that it is “unlikely” that the jewelry will be sold in the near future in the black market.

“The loot could be used for money laundering and even drug trafficking. We are investigating all leads,” he concluded.

Questioned by The Parisian about him whereabouts of stolen jewelrythe Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñezhas shown “confidence” that they can be recovered, although it does not rule out that the loot has already been sold abroad.

The minister also adds that, for now, “there are no reasons to suspect a possible interference foreign, including Russian.

So far, seven people have been arrested. in relation to the robbery Four have been sent to preventive detention after being formally charged and three other detainees were released without charges.

Los four accused include two men arrested last Wednesday: and 34 year old Algerian resident in the European country since 2010, and a 39-year-old man who was already under judicial supervision for robbery.

Both “partially” admitted their participation in the blow of the Louvre after being detained at Charles de Gaulle airport and on the outskirts of Paris, respectively, as Beccuau herself announced last week.