The Paris prosecutor “deeply regrets” that the arrests of suspects in the Louvre jewelry robbery were made public during the investigation

As the search for suspects in the Louvre Museum jewel heist continued Monday, the Paris prosecutor said she feared the investigation could be harmed by the “hasty revelation” over the weekend of the arrests of two other theft suspects.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said information made public about the arrests in the Louvre case should not have been revealed.

“I deeply regret the hasty disclosure of this information by informed people, without regard to the investigation,” Beccuau said in a statement his office released Sunday night.

Beccuau added: “This revelation can only harm the investigative efforts of a hundred investigators” searching for the stolen jewels and the perpetrators who are still at large.

Under French law, suspects in custody can be held for 96 hours before prosecutors have to file charges against them or release them.

“It is too early to provide more details,” Beccuau said. “I will provide additional information at the end of this custody phase.”

Two men, both in their 30s, from a Paris suburb were arrested over the weekend, accused of being part of the team that carried out the brazen jewelry heist, the French National Police confirmed to ABC News.

A suspect was arrested at 10 p.m. Saturday at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport while trying to board a plane bound for Algeria, police said.

The second suspect was detained by police when he was preparing to travel to Mali, West Africa, according to a Paris police investigator. Brigade for him Repression of Banditry (BRB), the special police unit leading the investigation, and a French Interior Ministry source directly linked to the investigation told ABC News.

According to investigators, both suspects, whose names have not been made public, are French citizens living in Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris.

One of the suspects has dual citizenship in France and Mali, and the other has dual citizenship in France and Algeria, investigators said, adding that both were already known to police from previous robbery cases.

Investigators said they matched traces of DNA evidence recovered from a helmet left at the crime scene to one of the suspects, allowing police to put the alleged thief under physical and telephone surveillance.

Both suspects are believed to have played an active role in the brazen Oct. 19 robbery at the Louvre, in which eight precious pieces of jewelry were stolen, including crowns containing thousands of diamonds and other precious stones, according to sources.

Investigators say they are still determining whether a source inside the Louvre may have played a role in the theft.

In what appeared to be an intricately planned robbery, a team of thieves approached the museum in what police described as a stolen truck with a “mobile forklift” or cherry picker on the back that extended to a window, according to Paris police.

Two of the thieves dressed as construction workers used the crane to climb to the second floor, where they cut out the Apollo Gallery window with angle grinders, authorities said.

Upon entering the gilded gallery, the thieves used power tools to cut through the display cases and reach the precious jewelry, investigators said.

According to investigators, the entire robbery lasted about seven minutes.

Beccuau estimated that $102 million worth of jewelry was stolen, including crowns, necklaces, earrings and a diamond-encrusted brooch that once belonged to Emperor Napoleon and his wife.

“They knew exactly where they were going. It seems very organized and very professional,” French Culture Minister Rachida Dati told ABC News last week.

The whereabouts of the jewels remains a mystery.

Among the stolen jewelry was a pearl and diamond tiara from the collection of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense, according to the Louvre. The tiara, according to the Louvre, is made up of 212 pearls of different sizes and nearly 2,000 diamonds. The piece was commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III on the occasion of his marriage to Eugenia de Montijo in 1853.

Another tiara was also stolen from the collection of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense, which is made up of sapphires and more than 1,000 diamonds, according to the Louvre.

A crown made of gold, diamonds and emeralds that once belonged to Empress Eugenie was damaged during the theft and was discovered on the street outside the museum, Dati told ABC News.

While testifying before the Culture Committee of France’s Senate on Wednesday, Laurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre, described the heist as “an immense wound that has been inflicted on us.”

Des Cars said all of the museum’s alarms worked properly, as did its video cameras, but he noted a “weakness” in security that was exploited by thieves. He said the only camera installed outside the Apollo Gallery faced west and did not cover the window where the burglars entered and exited.

“The Louvre’s weakness is its perimeter security, which has been a problem for a long time…certainly due to lack of investment,” des Cars told lawmakers.

Des Cars added: “We did not detect criminals arriving from abroad early enough.”