Paintings worth £60m stolen in 'spectacular' armed raid
ARMED robbers stole art by some of the world's most famous painters worth around £60 million from a Swiss museum, police said today.
Oil paintings by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were among those taken during yesterday's raid in Zurich.
Police called it a "spectacular art robbery," but did not identify the museum or further details about the stolen paintings. However, unconfirmed reports suggested it may be the EG Buehrle museum.
Last week, two Pablo Picasso paintings were stolen from another Swiss exhibition near Zurich. The two oil paintings – Head of Horse and Glass and Pitcher – were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Germany.
Police are examining the theory that the thieves in this case stayed in the building when it shut. They triggered an alarm on the way out and shortly afterwards, guards noticed the paintings were missing.
The Sprengel has promised a reward to anyone who has any information that may help recover the paintings, which are worth almost 2.3m.
The latest incident recalls an armed robbery of a Zurich gallery at the end of the 1980s in which paintings worth 100m were stolen.
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