French police arrest nine people over suspected €10m Louvre ticket fraud

The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum, said it was facing a rise in ticketing fraud. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

French police investigating a suspected €10m (£8.7m) ticket fraud scheme at the Louvre museum in Paris have detained nine people, including two members of staff.

“Based on the information available to the museum, we suspect the existence of a network organising large-scale fraud,” a museum spokesperson told Agence France-Presse.