Two forged artworks purportedly by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso are seen during a presentation at the Bavarian State Criminal Investigation Department in Munich on Friday. Matthias Balk/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matthias Balk/AFP via Getty Images German police say they’ve broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell […]
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French police arrest 2 Louvre jewel heist suspects amid manhunt
LONDON — French authorities arrested two men in relation to last week’s major jewel heist at Paris’ Louvre Museum, the French National Police confirmed to ABC News, amid a nationwide manhunt for the perpetrators. One suspect was arrested at 10 p.m. on Saturday at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport while trying to board a plane […]
Arrests over theft of jewels at Louvre, police say
Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, French media say. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Items worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from […]