Paintings stolen from the museum when the surveillance equipment is down for weeks (French)
A man accused of stealing and hiding the precious paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art that in a moment of panic, threw the plates is one of the icons of modern art in the trash.
The paintings of drawing top artists are Picasso and George Braque, and Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse and Fernand Leger has been stolen from the museum in one day May / May 2010, when the monitors in the museum of order, and the estimated value of the stolen items at about $ 134 million U.S..
Awsat, and classed based on the museum and art lovers in France and the world of the great fears that the paintings had been destroyed when the garbage collection of the containers that I threw in a Paris street.
Has directed the finger to the three suspects first technical repairs at the age of 34 and knew the newspaper Le Journal de Munch French name of Jonathan B, and the second owner of the Antiques age 56 years and accused of incitement to theft, and the third old Serb 43 and known as the "Spider-Man."
According to French newspaper report, the Spider-Man, a masked man entered the museum intent on stealing one panel and run them away to avoid the police who were supposed to rush to hear the siren if any panel to move from its place. But when he saw the thief that the sirens did not start walking around in the museum under an hour during which he stole five paintings and left his car without being noticed by one.
The dawn of the incident calls for a re-evaluation of security measures in the museum of France, especially after the discovery that the surveillance equipment had been down a full month before the incident did not pay attention no one has.
Threads started stealing five paintings unfold when he was arrested on the antiques shop owner and the person Serbian "Spider-Man" for interrogation in other cases.During the investigation, was named Jonathan, and invited me to investigate and released after that, but it was owned by the panic and get rid of the stolen paintings dumped in a garbage dump.
In September / September last three were arrested in the case of theft of five paintings, and antiques shop owner denied that he ordered or instigated the theft of paintings, but he acknowledged that the paintings brought to him after the theft and gave it to my Jonathan.
Source: Los Angeles Times
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