France, Oct. 26 -- The Paris prosecutor has said that a number of suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum last weekend.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Sunday that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening, adding that one of the men was taken into custody as he was preparing to leave the country from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.

French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. One of the suspects was apprehended around 10pm (2000 GMT) on Saturday at the airport, and the second arrested not long after in the Paris region, those sources said.

Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests.

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