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ANGELA CHARLTON
PARIS (AP) — Valuable Renoir paintings were stolen early Tuesday
from a small museum on the French Riviera, and investigators
were hunting for the suspected thieves, police said.
Surveillance camera footage identified thieves entering the
Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer and stealing four paintings
worth millions of euros, the town’s mayor, Bryan Masson, said in
a statement. The thieves dropped one of the paintings as they
fled, the statement said.
An official with the regional police administration confirmed
the theft and the hunt for suspects, and said an investigation
is underway. The official, who wasn't authorized to be publicly
named according to police policy, couldn't confirm the value of
the paintings.
The theft came after the spectacular heist of crown jewels at
the Louvre Museum in Paris last year.
The Renoir Museum is housed in the last home of painter Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, where he lived before his death in 1919. It's the most
famous attraction in Cagnes-sur-Mer, situated between Cannes and
Nice on the Mediterranean coast.
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