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Theft of paintings by museums closed due to coronavirus and the arrest of a suspect

A suspect has been arrested by Dutch police on two separate counts of stealing Dutch paintings. Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hulls from museums closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This morning my colleagues arrested a 58-year-old man in Barn who we suspect stole two paintings by Frans Hals and Van Gong,” police spokeswoman Maren Wonder said in a video statement posted on Twitter. No further details have been released on the suspect.

The police spokeswoman added that the paintings have not been recovered and called on the public to provide any information they have about the location of these works.

Last March, thieves stole him table Van Gong’s “Lentetuin” or “Spring Garden”, which dates back to 1884 and represents the garden of a presbytery in Nuenen, from the Singer Laren Museum in Lauren, near Amsterdam.

Five months later, thieves broke into a small museum near Utrecht and escaped with a painting of its subway. Dutch “Golden Age” Frans Hulls, as broadcast by Reuters and Agence France-Presse and relayed by the Athenian News Agency.

The value of the project, “Two Laughing Boys”, dating back to 1626, was estimated by an analyst at 15 million euros. It had been stolen twice before, most recently in May 2011 from the same museum. Police recovered it later that year after arresting four men who had tried to sell it.

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