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Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum
By ERNST E. ABEGG
The Associated Press
Monday, February 11, 2008; 5:17 PM
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.
Authorities appealed Monday for any witnesses to help reconstruct the robbers' getaway from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, a private museum of Impressionist works whose founder had his own troubled history with stolen art.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021100393_pf.html
By ERNST E. ABEGG
The Associated Press
Monday, February 11, 2008; 5:17 PM
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.
Authorities appealed Monday for any witnesses to help reconstruct the robbers' getaway from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, a private museum of Impressionist works whose founder had his own troubled history with stolen art.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021100393_pf.html
