Somewhere in the world today there is a person, or group of people who have some pretty amazing loot in their hot little hands. Within the last month there have been two spectacular art thefts in Europe, and famous, irreplacable works by Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Degas and Van Gogh have vanished.The lastest happened just yesterday at the Emil Buehrle in Switzerland. A gang of three thieves threatened guards with guns before seizing the works. This latest theft is considered to be one of the world's biggest art thefts in the last 20 years. Two days earlier near Zurich, two Picasso paintings were heisted.
The police themselves have called the thefts "spectacular" as the small group of armed men grabbed the paintings and shaved them into a white vehicle parked just outside the museum.
The paintings stolen include Poppies near Vetheuil, by Claude Monet, Count Lepic and his Daughters, by Edgar Degas, Chestnut in Bloom, by Vincent Van Gogh, Boy in a Red Jacket, by Paul Cezanne, Head of Horse and Glass and Pitcher by Picasso.
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