A 38-year-old woman who was arrested this week along with four other people over the unprecedented jewel theft at the Louvre last month has appeared before a magistrate who will decide whether to detain her.
The suspect, who lives in the northern La Courneuve suburb of Paris, has been charged with complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime.
Another person has been released without charge, his lawyers have said.
Thieves wielding power tools raided the Louvre, the world's most visited art museum, in broad daylight, taking just seven minutes to steal jewellery worth an estimated €87 million.
French authorities initially announced the arrest of two suspects, and this week prosecutors said that police had arrested five more people, including a prime suspect.
One of the five suspects was released without charge yesterday, said his lawyers, Sofia Bougrine and Noemie Gorin.
"In these serious crime cases, we find that waves of arrests look more like drift nets," Ms Bougrine said, pointing to what she said was the indiscriminate nature of some of the arrests.
Early this morning, several suspects arrested this week appeared before magistrates at a Paris court. The Paris public prosecutor's office did not specify the number of suspects brought before the court.
The first two men arrested previously were charged with theft and criminal conspiracy after "partially admitting to the charges", Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said this week.
They are suspected of being the two who broke into the gallery while two accomplices waited outside.
The stolen items remains missing.
