Renoir paintings stolen from Riviera museum recovered, six people arrested
Investigators traced the works and suspects after the theft, with the mayor praising the recovery of two paintings.
- On Friday, authorities in France recovered two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum last month, with police arresting six individuals in connection with the theft.
- The stolen works, 'Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano' and 'Young Woman at the Well,' disappeared from the Renoir Museum in southern France last month during the heist.
- Investigators successfully tracked down the suspects and paintings, though authorities declined to reveal how they located the stolen artworks or identified the individuals involved.
- Bryan Masson, mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer where the Renoir Museum is located, said the recovery brought "immense relief" and praised investigators who tracked down the paintings.
- Six individuals remain in custody as authorities continue processing evidence against them, with the recovered paintings set to be returned to the Renoir Museum.
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Renoir paintings stolen from Riviera museum recovered, six people arrested
PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Two Renoir paintings worth millions of dollars that were stolen from a museum on the French Riviera a month ago have been recovered and six suspects have been arrested, the local mayor said on Friday. Thieves had broken into the grounds of the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early in the morning of September 8 through a hole cut in a garden fence and entered through a window. The two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Ren…
The two paintings stolen a month ago at the Renoir museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer in southeastern France were found, announced on Friday the mayor of the town, Bryan Masson, a day after a series of arrests.On 8 September, two thieves broke into the museum and managed to flee quickly with two works by the impressionist painter Auguste Renoir, almost a year after the sounding theft of jewels at the Louvre in Paris.The stolen works at Cagnes-sur-Mer were…
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cedarnews.netTwo burglars broke into the Renoir Museum on the Riviera in early September and took two paintings with them.
It took the burglars less than five minutes to make their package.
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