€ 500 million pictures, stolen
Five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque and Leger were stolen last night from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Thieves have made it again with a burst of great days. It happened last night at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, where five paintings including a Picasso and a Matisse dissapeared, reports AFP. All were worth over 500 million euros, according to the public prosecutor of the French capital.
The theft was discovered this morning by museum staff.
A building’s windows were broken and a lock was forced . Surveillance cameras caught a glimpse of the thief wearing a hood on his face. Investigators have taken the frames of the paintings to seek for possible fingerprints.
The stolen paintings are “Le Pigeon aux petits Poise” by Pablo Picasso, “The Pastoral” by Henri Matisse, “L’Olivier pres de l’Estaque” by Georges Braque, “La femme à l’éventail” d’Amedeo Modigliani and ” Nature morte aux chandeliers “by Fernand Leger, according to sources close to the investigation quoted by the BBC.
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