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Thieves stole 10 paintings worth a total of 1.5 million euros in a swift
nighttime burglary at a Brussels museum, prosecutors said yesterday.
In
the early hours of Tuesday, the thieves broke a window on the ground floor of
the Van Buuren museum in the leafy Brussels suburb of Uccle and even though the
alarm was triggered the thieves were gone before the police
arrived.
“The whole thing only lasted two minutes and three seconds,”
said Isabelle Anspach, the curator of the museum.
The most expensive
paintings were “The Thinker” by Dutch artist Kees van Dongen and “Shrimps and
Shells” by Belgian painter James Ensor, which accounted for 80 percent of the
loss, Anspach said.
Belgian prosecutors said two witnesses saw the
thieves speeding off in a BMW.
