Catherine Field: France Correspondent on the arrests of those involved in the Louvre heist - The Mike Hosking Breakfast

The Louvre heist seems to have been carried out not by an organised crime syndicate, but by petty criminals.  

Four thieves last month raided the world’s most-visited art museum, in daylight, stealing crown jewels worth an estimated $178 million in just seven minutes. 

French police arrested two men the following week and over the weekend a man and a woman in their 30s, living in a northern Paris suburb. 

France Correspondent Catherine Field told Mike Hosking the criminals allegedly left behind a fair bit of DNA evidence. 

Those who were arrested, Field says, already had criminal records, which meant Police were able to locate them.

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