According to BBC News, an armed ga
ng stole four paintings worth 160 million dollars, on Sunday. The painting were "Poppies near Vetheuil" by Claude Monet (1879), "Count Lepic and his Daughters" by Edgar Degas (1871), "Chestnut in Bloom" by Vincent Van Gogh (1890) and "Boy in a Red Jacket" by Paul Cezanne (1888). The painting were stolen at the Emil Buehrle Collection in Zurich at 1630 local time. One of the men threatened a security guard with a pistol, while the other two stole the paintings. The painting were put into a white vehicle outside the museum. Police have said that one of the robbers spoke German with a Slavic accent. Mario Cortesi, a Zurich police spokesman told journalists, "We're talking about the biggest ever robbery carried out in Switzerland, even Europe." The paintings were described as "the four finest in the museum's collection," by Museum director Lukas Gloor. The art theft is one of the biggest in the world in the last twenty years.
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