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French investigators use DNA and vehicle tracking to solve stolen Renoirs case

The arrests were prompted by the "very strong suspicion that another heist was imminent," the Marseille prosecutor said.

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00:02Investigators in France use DNA evidence and vehicle tracking to help recover two paintings by Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Noir.
00:10The paintings are worth millions of euros.
00:13The works had been stolen last month from a museum in southern France and were later discovered hidden behind a
00:19wall.
00:20Four suspects are under formal investigation.
00:23Two additional people who had also been arrested were released without charge.
00:26The person who was arrested at the house of which the two individuals were taken after the
00:32photographs in the Hérault recognized that the two first were coming to him and had discharged the photographs
00:39and that they were in position of a six-sabre Milwaukee.
00:46So an interesting element.
00:49He indicated that, at the time, he accepted to hide behind a false wall that he built.
00:57Both works showed signs of damage, including to the frame of one painting and the canvas of the other, which
01:03had a small tear.
01:04Both paintings require restoration work.
01:07He メジャンナ。
01:08And of course, it's true to my earlier today.

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