Two men in their 30s and originally from the capital's Seine-Saint-Denis suburb
which includes some of the country's most deprived areas
were detained on Saturday evening, according to Le Parisien newspaper, which first broke the story.
They were known to French police and one of the suspects was about to fly to Algeria from Charles de Gaulle airport, the newspaper said.
I know they're just reporting facts, but the story is about a suspect being apprehended and maybe shouldn't include notes about the suspect being from a deprived neighbourhood or make allusions to their nationality.
I talked to my students about the theft, they said it was shocking that it could happen in this day and age. They felt a little sad that the jewels were stolen, but part of the sadness came from the fact they didn't know they even existed.