ROME — Paintings by the French masters Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse had been stolen from a museum close to Parma in a brazen nighttime heist, Italian authorities stated Monday.
The Magnani Rocca Foundation museum within the northern city of Traversetolo described the March 22 theft as a extremely skilled operation, executed in lower than three minutes, Italian media reported. Four masked males are believed to have pressured their manner by way of an entry gate, grabbed the work and escaped by climbing a fence, authorities informed The Washington Post.
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