The general public is studying extra concerning the 4 suspects arrested for allegedly stealing the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum final month. One suspect specifically has garnered consideration as a social media star identified for his motocross stunts, in accordance with Le Parisien.
The 39-year-old man, recognized by officers as Abdoulaye N., was arrested at his dwelling 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 akin to gloves, a hi-vis vest, and disc cutters. He’s suspected of being one among two individuals who broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery by an unsecured window, earlier than absconding on motorbikes.
Abdoulaye N. is reportedly identified on social media as Doudou Cross Bitume, who launched quite a few movies performing tips on motorbikes, touring regionally, and providing recommendations on methods to construct muscle on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, reported Le Parisien and BFMTV. A number of movies moreover present him driving a Yamaha TMax, which was additionally used within the Louvre escape.
He additionally labored for such firms as UPS and Toys-R-Us, in addition to a safety guard on the Centre Pompidou, the information shops added, and already had a earlier felony document with 15 offenses, together with possession and transportation of medication, driving with out 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 presupposed to be on trial in one other Parisian suburb Bobigny for a separate case on Wednesday, November 5 for injury of public property akin to 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, in accordance with the Related Press.
Regardless of narrowing in on suspects, the stolen jewels nonetheless have but to be recovered.
