WorldPingFrench police on Tuesday hunted for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum, after abandoning two others as they fled, in a burglary that reignited concerns about the protection of France's cultural heritage.
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The mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, said that two of the four works had been recovered but that the two perpetrators are still being sought.
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A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings…
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WorldPingThieves took four artworks but it is thought they dropped two in museum garden as they fled French police are hunting two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum on the French Riviera after breaking in through a hole cut in its ga…
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