Last month's jewellery heist at the Louvre museum was carried out by petty criminals rather than organised crime professionals, Paris's prosecutor has said.
This is not quite everyday delinquency... but it is a type of delinquency that we do not generally associate with the upper echelons of organised crime, Laure Beccuau told franceinfo radio.
She said four people arrested and charged so far over the theft that shocked France and the world were clearly local people living in Seine-Saint-Denis, an impoverished area just north of Paris.
Jewels worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from the most-visited museum, in the French capital, on 19 October.
In Sunday's interview to franceinfo radio, Beccuau said the four arrested people - three men and a woman - all live more or less in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The suspects arrived at the museum just after it opened with a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to access the Galerie d'Apollon via a balcony. They used a disc cutter to crack open display cases housing the jewels.
The thieves were inside for just four minutes before escaping on scooters. Despite some items being recovered, concerns remain over the fate of the remainder of stolen jewels, which investigators believe may have been smuggled out of the country.
Since the incident, security measures have been heightened at cultural institutions in France, with the Louvre relocating some of its most precious items to the Bank of France.
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