00:01Italian police recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse, worth almost 9 million
00:07euros that had been stolen from an Italian museum in March. The paintings were taken
00:12by thieves from the villa of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, near Parma in northern Italy.
00:17The heist had lasted under three minutes. Police said the investigation centred around
00:23a gang of nine Moldovan suspects. Five are accused of carrying out the theft.
00:28Video footage released by police showed two thieves wearing headlamps and with their faces
00:33covered entering the villa by breaking through a window. They headed straight into a room
00:38where the three paintings hung and took them off the wall, before heading back to the window
00:42and passing them through to an accomplice waiting outside.
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