Theft - Finestre sull'Arte

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Turin, €1 million heist at Sant'Agostino Auction House in four minutes

Turin, €1 million heist at Sant'Agostino Auction House in four minutes

A theft with an estimated value of about one million euros was scored in Turin, Italy, at the Sant'Agostino Auction House on Corso Tassoni. The thieves acted in just four minutes, stealing jewelry and watches intended for an auction scheduled for Jun...
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Sensational theft at Magnani-Rocca Foundation (Parma): stolen Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse

Sensational theft at Magnani-Rocca Foundation (Parma): stolen Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse

An extraordinarily serious theft has struck one of northern Italy's most significant cultural centers . At the Magnani Rocca Foundation, in Mamiano di Traversetolo, in the province of Parma, several masterpieces of the highest artistic and economic v...
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Paris, sword from equestrian statue of Joan of Arc stolen: man apprehended

Paris, sword from equestrian statue of Joan of Arc stolen: man apprehended

On Friday morning, Jan. 2, 2026, around 10 a.m., a man was detained in Paris following the theft of a sword from the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, a work created by Paul Dubois in the late 19th century, located in the Place Saint-Augustin in the ...
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Theft at the Louvre, all the funniest memes

Theft at the Louvre, all the funniest memes

The sensational theft of several pieces of the French crown jewels at the Louvre on Oct. 19 quickly captured the attention of the mainstream media as well as the web, turning a news episode into a true viral phenomenon. Memes, satirical cartoons and ...
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Diabolik comments on Louvre theft: It wasn't me...this time

Diabolik comments on Louvre theft: It wasn't me...this time

"It wasn't me... this time." With this sentence, accompanied by an image of the famous masked thief in front of the blue-lit Louvre Pyramid, Diabolik 's official Instagram page commented on one of the most talked-about episodes of recent weeks: the t...
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Germany, stole valuable Celtic coins from a museum: sentences up to 11 years

Germany, stole valuable Celtic coins from a museum: sentences up to 11 years

On Tuesday, July 29, 2025, the regional court in Ingolstadt, Germany, handed down the verdict in the trial over the theft of the Manching Celtic treasure, which was stolen from the Manching town's Roman-Celtic museum, the Kelten- & Römermuse...
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Theft at the Picasso Museum in Paris: woman takes home a jacket and shortens it, but it's a work of art

Theft at the Picasso Museum in Paris: woman takes home a jacket and shortens it, but it's a work of art

A lady over 70 stole, without knowing what it was, awork of art from a museum: it happened in France, at the Musée Picasso in Paris. The woman saw hanging on the wall a blue jacket with postcards stuffed in one of the pockets and thought she ...
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Pompeii, a marble manhole cover from the House of Siricus stolen. Investigations are ongoing

Pompeii, a marble manhole cover from the House of Siricus stolen. Investigations are ongoing

More thefts at the Pompeii Archaeological Park. The latter reports in a press note that on Monday, Oct. 4, a marble manhole cover, about 20 cm in diameter, referable to a cistern mouth in a room of the House of Siricus in Pompeii was found to have be...
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