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«I put my suitcase with seven paintings to the furnace with wood, slippers and other footwear and waited until everyone is safely burn».

29-year-old citizen of Romania Radu Dogaru, accused of stealing seven paintings from the Dutch Museum Kunsthal, the court offered the deal, said the agency France-Presse. Dogaru said he was ready to return five of the seven paintings stolen if it will not be judged in Romania, and the Netherlands. Please accused due to the fact that the Dutch justice more loyal to theft than Romanian.

The trial of the Rada Dogaru and five other accused in Bucharest began on 13 August. Before the trial, the lawyer Katalin Danko told reporters that his client tried to make a deal with the Dutch justice. "Send me back to the Netherlands, and I will give you five pictures" - suggested the defendant. Three of the five alleged accomplices Dogaru already pleaded guilty.

On the other two films Dogaru said nothing. Katalin Danko said he had no information whether the disposal of his client at least one of the paintings. Prosecutors fear that all seven of the stolen masterpieces could be destroyed by the mother of the defendant.

Mother Olga Radu Dogaru twice testified in the Romanian courts. The first time she said it burned the suitcase with seven stolen paintings in order to destroy the evidence against her son. Later, when the question of her arrest, Dogaru changed his testimony and said that she did not destroy the web. According to experts from the Romanian Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, investigated the ashes of the furnace Olga Dogaru, three stolen paintings were definitely destroyed. One of the main evidence - the nails surface to be attached to the frame, which the experts found in the ashes.
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