00:01Italian police recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth almost 9 million euros
00:07that had been stolen from an Italian museum in March. The paintings were taken by thieves from
00:13the villa of the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma in northern Italy. The heist had lasted
00:19under three minutes. Police said the investigation centred around a gang of nine Moldovan suspects,
00:25five are accused of carrying out the theft. Video footage released by police showed two thieves
00:31wearing headlamps and with their faces covered entering the villa by breaking through a window.
00:36They headed straight into a room where the three paintings hung and took them off the wall,
00:41before heading back to the window and passing them through to an accomplice waiting outside.
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