Italian police recover stolen paintings worth over $10m

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The artworks were taken from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum near the northern city of Parma in late March in an operation that lasted less than three minutes.

Italy’s domestic police force, the Carabinieri, and its cultural heritage protection unit announced in a statement on Friday that the paintings by Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse had been retrieved from an apartment in Parma.

As pinturas têm mais de um século de idade e a polícia suspeita que uma gangue organizada esteja por trás do roubo.

The heist, footage of which police released on Friday, happened on March 22. In the video, two masked burglars can be seen entering the museum through a window and taking the paintings off the wall before handing the artworks to an accomplice waiting outside.

An alarm was triggered during the robbery.

The paintings were discovered at a property in Sao Bernardo do Campo, where a man was arrested.