Louvre Heist Work of Petty Criminals, Not Organised Crime, Prosecutor Says

She said the profiles of the four people under arrest so far - including the girlfriend of one of the suspected robbers - are not typical of organised crime professionals capable of executing complex operations.

xParis :The audacious daytime robbery of historical jewels worth $102 million from the Paris Louvre museum last month was executed by petty criminals, rather than professionals from the world of organised crime, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.

On a Sunday morning two weeks ago, two men parked a movers' lift outside the Louvre, rode up to the second storey, smashed a window, cracked open display cases with angle grinders, and then fled on the back of scooters driven by two accomplices in a heist lasting less than seven minutes.

With three of the four suspected thieves now b