Theft

[mihailovoh]

From the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, was kidnapped five paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. According to the authorized persons, the picture disappeared from the museum building this morning.

In particular, the keepers of the museum were missing paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Leger, the Associated Press reports citing an anonymous law enforcement source in Paris.

It is assumed that the total cost of painting over 500 million euros.

The area around the museum building was cordoned off from the Seine until Eiffel Tower. At the moment the incident is under investigation. Additional details are still not reported.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris is part of the Cultural Centre Georges Pompidou, has up to 60 thousand exhibits, which include works by Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, as well as the aforementioned authors. The museum is located in one of the oldest and most beautiful parts of Paris - on the right bank of the Seine.

[Евгений]

One year ago: "From the National Picasso Museum in Paris abducted notebook with drawings of Pablo Picasso ....."
A year passed and a new museum staff gullibility of Paris ...
Is a normal alarm can spend a little money, miser ..
Astonishing carelessness, the paintings bore the bolkonchik (pictured), was removed from the frames (probably accurately) and took ...

[олег назаров]

Сообщение от Eugene

pictures of the thief introduced bolkonchik (pictured),

A PICTURE THAT THIS IS THE MOST-thief?

[Евгений]

Oleg Nazarov, There is a criminologist.

[ABC]

paintings by Picasso and Matisse from the museum took the thief a lone

The Paris Museum of Modern Art thief robbed a lone, said at a press conference, representatives of authorities. Their words conveys AFP. The gunman made his way to the premises of the museum and took five pictures, among them - the work of Picasso and Matisse.

The Guardian said that the thief was filmed by CCTV cameras. The crime was discovered about 7 am local time. One of the windows of the museum was broken, in addition, was broken padlock. The gunman pulled gently canvases from their frames, and not cut them. Once thawed loss of exhibits, the museum was sealed.

Furthermore, it became known that the stolen works together estimated at 90-100 million euros, not 500 million, as previously reported unofficial sources. If the stolen art really worth 500 million euros, the crime would be the biggest museum theft in history, cutting off the robbery of the American Museum Isabella Stewart Gardner. In 1990, he lost 13 paintings, including Vermeer, Manet, Degas and Rembrandt.

Previously, it became known what the paintings were stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art: a "dove with green peas, Pablo Picasso," Pastoral "by Henri Matisse," Oliva near Estaka Georges Braque, Woman with a Fan "Amedeo Modigliani and" Still Life with candlesticks "Fernand Leger. Journalists note that these works are so well known that sell them on the open market is impossible. Perhaps the thief was working on request.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от ABC

offender gently pulled canvases from their frames, and not cut them.

Well done, a connoisseur of antique paintings ..

[Игорь Гурьев]

The area was not cordoned off.
Just the museum is closed and all.

It was not part of the Centre Pompidou, and a separate City Museum of Contemporary Art - in contrast to the National Centre Pompidou.

Well, the municipal subordination, rather than nationwide.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Eugene

Of course, protection at the level of collective House of Culture in Russia.

All precisely:
 
Mugged by the Museum of Modern Art was guarded by reliability, Interfax reported with reference to the radio station France Info.
According to her, police investigating theft, found that intruders could easily penetrate into the museum building, since March this year in the alarm system began to be observed failures.

In fact, in order to steal the picture, the thieves had to do was to hack a lock and broke the window.