Paris, Oct. 26 -- A special unit of the French police has arrested 2 people suspected of being involved in the theft of crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau has informed, France 24 reported.

The prosecutor said that the arrests were made on Saturday (local time) evening, one person who is now in custody had earlier attempted to leave the country too from Paris-Charles de Daulle airport.

French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Beccuau did not confirm the number of people arrested.

France 24 quoted prosecutor Beccuau that the special police unit that apprehended the suspects is in charge of armed robberies and art thefts....