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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings worth millions from Italian museum

The painting Still Life With Cherries, by Paul Cézanne, one of three artworks stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation.
The painting Still Life With Cherries, by Paul Cézanne, one of three artworks stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation. Photograph: Magnani Rocca Foundation/Reuters

Thieves have stolen paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from an Italian museum in a slick operation that lasted less than three minutes, officials have said.

The four masked men entered the museum of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, located in the countryside about 20km (12 miles) from the northern Italian city of Parma, through a back gate on the night of 22 March, a police spokesperson said on Sunday night.

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