India, Oct. 26 -- Any news of arrests in a heist as massive as the $102-million jewellery theft at the Louvre museum in Paris would make the authorities happy; wouldn't it? Well, that's just conventional wisdom. The Paris prosecutor is, apparently, angry - not because some suspects have been arrested; but because revealing details in such a sensitive case can be tricky.

The thieves took less than eight minutes last Sunday morning to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the world's most-visited museum.

The intruders used a basket lift to scale the facade, opened a window, smashed display cases, and fled with the jewellery. The museum's director called the incident a "terrible failure."

Investigators from a special...