Authorities have arrested two men suspected of taking part in a heist at the Louvre museum in Paris, in which a crew of four criminals made off with crown jewels worth an estimated €88 million ($157 million), according to French media.

Le Parisien reported the pair, aged around 30 and from the Seine-Saint-Denis area, were arrested on Saturday evening (Paris time).

The Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement that one of the men had been preparing to leave for Algeria from Charles de Gaulle airport at the time of his arrest.

Prosecutor Laure Beccuau declined to provide information on the number of arrests or the identities of the suspects, deploring the leak of the initial information to the press.

“This revelation can only hinder the investigative efforts of the 100 or so mobilis

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