French authorities have arrested four more people in connection with last month’s daylight robbery of royal jewels worth $102m from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday that two men aged 38 and 39 and two women aged 31 and 40 were arrested as part of the probe into the heist , which saw thieves make off with eight items, including an emerald and diamond necklace given by Napoleon I to his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise.

All four suspects are from the Paris region, Beccuau said. Previously, four other people had been arrested and placed under formal investigation over the raid of the world’s most visited art museum, which was carried out by four people.

On October 19, two men parked a mover’s lift below the Apollo Gallery housing the French c

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