Breaking - Paintings stolen (suspicious)

Five paintings by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, police sources say.

The paintings stolen are estimated to be worth some 500m euros (£431m; $618m), the sources say.

They were taken overnight on Wednesday and reported missing early on Thursday, officials say.

The museum, across the Seine river from the Eiffel Tower, has been cordoned off, reports say.

The five missing paintings are said to be Le pigeon aux petits pois by Pablo Picasso, La pastorale by Henri Matisse, L'olivier pres de l'Estaque by Georges Braque, La femme a l'eventail by Amedeo Modigliani and Nature morte aux chandeliers by Fernand Leger.

Officials at the museum discovered the theft early on Thursday when they found a window and a lock had been broken, sources said.

Hmmmmmm

You are right OP.... Odd and suspicious!....

I've been to art galleries and you would have to do some ninja shit to steal anything

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This was stolen in January!

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2002 two Van gogh paintings were stolen - someone is starting a nice collection!

Think Daniel Ocean pulled this off?

When you see masterpieces vanish or exact copies put in their place.....then you know.

Lol, must have been!

for conspiracy!

Am surprised - thought this story was right for GLP!

Good point OP.

They will probably "recover" them with copies and store the originals away in the seed vaults or salt mines

OMG in the movie "2012" they secure the most valuable art work on containers....remember that...and it was a top secret operation!!!

If anyone related to the museum ends up dead soon - we'll know for sure...

He cut a PADLOCK,

broke a window,

and then stole all five paintings,

without setting off ANY alarms???

THAT's the type of security that was in place???

Cripes.

Where'd I put those bolt-cutters...



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Hmmm sounds well dodgy - we've all seen the type of security paintings worth millions are kept in!

Ah, you gotta admit, 2012 was a FUN (no-brain) movie.

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Cern

Plot was horrific but watching shit get destroyed was mega!

Cern? What you reckon that's where they are putting the shit? Vatican vault is more my guess!

Probably secured in the queen's library...or it's....... operation: Denver Drop.

This theft is as believable as the 5000/bpd oil spill.

yep, and the paintings are already loaded on the Ark in Tibet.

I watched it the day before the Chili quake. When the quake happened my anxiety was doubled.

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Was 1998 but still one was stolen from the Lourve - the plot thickens!

boom

Picasso is so overrated

Inside job.

They turned off the alarm system, with a key, they walked in and out the doors, loaded up the paintings and split.

And then they popped the window-lock for dramatic effect.

you are sadly mistaken ...

OP, haven't you seen the movie 2012? They replace them with fakes.