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Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings in three-minute Italian heist
Three paintings worth about €9 million were stolen in under three minutes by a suspected organized gang targeting high-value European museum artworks.
- On March 22, four masked men broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa near Parma and stole three masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cézanne, and Henri Matisse from the French Room.
- The gang forced their way through the main door, escaping over a fence in three minutes, which the Magnani Rocca Foundation described as 'structured and organised' execution.
- Stolen works include Les Poissons by Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Cézanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Matisse, with combined estimated value of £9m.
- Italy's Carabinieri and the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Bologna opened an investigation into the theft, which became public on Sunday following the March 22 incident.
- The heist follows a brazen daylight robbery at the Louvre in Paris last October, suggesting heightened vulnerability among Europe's cultural institutions to organised art theft.
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ROME (AP) — Thieves stole three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the northern Italian city of Parma, police said Monday.
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noticiasya.comThey stole paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse from a museum in northern Italy, in a bold theft that lasted just three minutes, according to the authorities.
Hard number: Masterpieces, masterfully heisted
3 minutes: The amount of time police said it took four masked men to steal paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse from a museum near Parma, Italy, earlier this month.The crew that pulled off the daring heist at the Villa dei Capolavori made off with paintings worth more than $10 million.
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