- Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse, valued at an estimated €9m (£7.8m), were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa near Parma, Italy.
- Four masked thieves carried out the daring heist on 22 March, breaking into the museum and swiping the artworks in less than three minutes.
- The stolen pieces include Renoir’s ‘Les Poissons’ (worth €6m alone), Cézanne’s ‘Still Life with Cherries’, and Matisse’s ‘Odalisque on the Terrace’.
- The burglars triggered the museum’s alarm system but managed to escape across the gardens by climbing over a fence before police arrived.
- Police are currently investigating surveillance footage, and the incident follows other recent art thefts in Europe, such as the Louvre robbery last October.
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