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Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum

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What to know

  • The works were taken overnight without alarms being triggered, raising suspicion of a professional hit.S1
  • The burglars struck at the MuMe regional museum in Messina where they made off with three of the remaining five panels that made up an altarpiece known as Polittico di San GregorioS2
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Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum

The works were taken overnight without alarms being triggered, raising suspicion of a professional hit.

2mos Mirror

Four Antonello da Messina paintings stolen in Renaissance master's hometown

The burglars struck at the MuMe regional museum in Messina where they made off with three of the remaining five panels that made up an altarpiece known as Polittico di San Gregorio

Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum

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What to know

  • The works were taken overnight without alarms being triggered, raising suspicion of a professional hit.S1
  • The burglars struck at the MuMe regional museum in Messina where they made off with three of the remaining five panels that made up an altarpiece known as Polittico di San GregorioS2
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S1 BBC 1 report · EN
S2 MirrorLead 1 report · EN