Police hunt armed gang after 'spectacular' art heist

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Source: WRS

The robbers entered the building just before closing and one of the masked men forced the employees to lie on the floor at gunpoint while his two colleagues raced into the exhibition room and grabbed the paintings including their frames and protective glass covers.

Neither staff nor the 15 visitors inside the building at the time were harmed, but Zurich police spokesman Mario Cortesi says the brutality and scale of the theft are unprecedented in Switzerland.

The four works stolen are Cézanne‘s Boy in the Red Waistcoat worth CHF100 million on its own, van Gogh‘s Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Monet‘s Poppies near Vetheuil and Degas‘s Count Lepic and his Daughters.

Museum director Lukas Gloor says the works are too well-known to sell on the open market but he has not ruled out that a ransom demand could be made.


Read more: http://www.worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/police-hunt-armed-gang-after-spectacular-art-heist.shtml?10355

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Wow, as an art lover this really bothers me.

I kinda wish they would ransom them so we can at least get these pieces of history BACK!

[Kingofalldems]

1. Sounds like Ocean's 14

Where was Clooney yesterday?:rofl: