French authorities arrested two men in relation to last week's major jewel heist at Paris' Louvre Museum, the French National Police confirmed to ABC News, amid a nationwide manhunt for the perpetrators.

Police made the arrests as one of the suspects was preparing to take a flight out of France.

Members of a forensic team inspect a window believed to have been used in what the French Interior Ministry said was a robbery at the Louvre museum during which jewellery was stolen, in Paris, France,

Police have arrested suspects as part of the investigation into the theft of jewels worth tens of millions of dollars from the Louvre Museum, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports.

French police have made their first arrests in connection to the heist at the Louvre Museum, according to prosecutors, including one man who was intercepted before he could board a flight to flee France.

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said that investigators arrested multiple men in connection with the Louvre Museum heist on Saturday evening.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris

On Friday a secret police escort oversaw the transfer of some of the remaining jewels to the Bank, 500m (about 500 yards ) from the museum, French media report. They will now be stored in the Bank's most secure vault,