One of the men arrested on suspicion of stealing €88m of crown jewels from the Louvre museum is a minor social media star with a passion for motorbikes who has worked as a security guard at the Pompidou centre, French media have reported.
Identified by justice officials as Abdoulaye N, the 39-year-old man was arrested at his home in Aubervilliers, the suburb north of Paris where he was born, six days after the October 19th heist. He faces charges of organised theft and criminal conspiracy.
A court in Bobigny, north of Paris, on Wednesday postponed his trial in a separate case in which he i
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