A Stolen Picasso Just Turned Up During a Drug Raid Near Paris, Reportedly Taken From a Storage Facility
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French police have recovered a stolen painting by Pablo Picasso, a portrait of his late 1920s and 1930s companion, Marie-Thérèse Walter, during a raid near Paris. Police said the theft was "opportunistic."
The French police found fortuitously a picture attributed to Pablo Picasso during an operation against drug trafficking carried out in the town of Champigny-sur-Marne, on the outskirts of Paris, judicial sources reported. The finding occurred on June 15 during a search in the home of the aunt of an alleged drug trafficker, as part of an investigation into drug trafficking. According to the authorities, the work appeared casually while the agents…
The French police recovered a stolen work by Pablo Picasso during an anti-drug operation in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the suburbs of south-east Paris. The painting, whose authenticity has already been validated by specialists, belongs to a series of portraits dedicated to Marie-Thérèse Walter and its value would amount to tens of millions of euros, according to information disseminated by Alliance Police Nationale.The finding occurred on June 15 d…
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