Al Jazeera

Renoir paintings worth $10.5 million missing after museum heist

A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings…

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Two Renoir paintings are missing after French museum heist

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French police hunt Renoir thieves after lightning museum heist

French 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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Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

Thieves 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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