Police arrest four new suspects over Louvre royal jewels heist

Visitors queue outside the Louvre museum three days after historic jewels were stolen in a daylight heist, 22 October. © AP - Thibault Camus

French authorities have arrested four more people in the investigation into October's theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.

"They are two men aged 38 and 39, and two women aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region," prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.