The general public is studying extra about the four suspects arrested for allegedly stealing the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum final month. One suspect particularly has garnered consideration as a social media star identified for his motocross stunts, based on Le Parisien.
The 39-year-old man, recognized by officers as Abdoulaye N., was arrested at his house within the Parisian suburb Aubervilliers, six days after the October 19 heist. His DNA was reportedly discovered on show circumstances and different deserted gadgets on the scene reminiscent of gloves, a hi-vis vest, and disc cutters. He’s suspected of being one in every of two individuals who broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery by way of an unsecured window, earlier than absconding on motorbikes.
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Abdoulaye N. is reportedly identified on social media as Doudou Cross Bitume, who launched quite a few movies performing methods on motorbikes, touring domestically, and providing tips about how one can construct muscle on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, reported Le Parisien and BFMTV. A number of movies moreover present him using a Yamaha TMax, which was additionally used within the Louvre escape.
He additionally labored for such corporations as UPS and Toys-R-Us, in addition to a safety guard on the Centre Pompidou, the information retailers added, and already had a earlier prison report with 15 offenses, together with possession and transportation of medication, driving and not using a license, and inflicting hazard to others. In 2014, he was convicted of robbing a jewellery retailer (one other one of many suspects arrested within the Louvre heist was stated to have been convicted in the identical theft, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed final week).
Abdoulaye N. was imagined to be on trial in one other Parisian suburb Bobigny for a separate case on Wednesday, November 5 for injury of public property reminiscent of breaking a mirror and damaging the door of the jail cell, the place he was detained in 2019 for an additional theft for which he was subsequently cleared, based on the Related Press.
Regardless of narrowing in on suspects, the stolen jewels nonetheless have but to be recovered.
