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News & Current Events Mar 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM

Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse works in 3-minute Italian museum raid

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devilishycleverchap Mar 30, 2026 +128
Gangs are realizing the cops arent quite as effective as movies portray. Esp if you can get some low level fall guys
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Mysterious_Past6277 Mar 31, 2026 +1
I am more surprised that china doesnt fund these thefts all the time via crypto, pay some pros a down-payment and a bonus when item is delivered. My roommate in uni was chinese he just straight up told me his cousins dad who was involved with tencent somehow was able to get a hold of foreign luxuries, some sort of conquering with wealth. Given how china's investing in africa seems like its valued in china, to conquer with wealth. 
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ordanatreddit1234 Mar 30, 2026 +44
>Local media reported that the thieves were able to nab the paintings in **less than three minutes** and escape across the museum gardens. That's impressively fast.
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itsdoodooobabyy Mar 30, 2026 +8
Always curious about security systems in place for works of art. Yeah, high profile I imagine have gnarly security. But lesser known pieces are they investing much to protect? No idea The conspiracy part of me is with the other guy commenting. It’s just billionaires playing games with other billionaires. Billionaire A probably made a comment about his foundation having the art at a cocktail party, now his daughter can look at it when she wants. Billionaires B probably wants it for his daughter - arrange heist.
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oddlyNormel Mar 30, 2026 +11
Agree about billionaires but you may also like the book The Art Thief by Michael Finkle. The book goes into a lot of detail on how an otherwise regular guy is able to steel tons of artwork across Europe. Honestly, I don’t know if the biggest works even have the security we image.
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Technical_Ideal_5439 Mar 31, 2026 +1
It was awhile ago but went to the hermitage in St Petersburg. The security was little old ladies asleep on a chair in every room , they would wake up and stare at you as though you just about to steal something, and nothing was locked down, technically I could have just grabbed it off the wall and walked out. And by it I mean everything you have ever heard of and lots of it, from **Rembrandt**, **Leonardo da Vinci**, and **Raphael, etc. 16,000 of them.** **BTW There is no way they have not improved it by now.**
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Mist_Rising Mar 30, 2026 +5
Stick around longer and security probably has an increasingly higher chance of nabbing you. Practice and planning is what separates the ones we catch before they escape and the ones we don't. Of course the real challenge is the long game, you committed the crime, now you have to get away with it forever.
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Accurate_Cry_8937 Mar 30, 2026 +76
Thieves stole three priceless paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse in a swift heist at the Magnani Rocca Foundation museum in Parma, Italy, on the night of March 22-23. The stolen works include *Fish* by Auguste Renoir, *Still Life with Cherries* by Paul Cézanne, and *Odalisque on the Terrace* by Henri Matisse. The thieves gained access by forcing open the museum's entrance, snatched the artworks in under three minutes, and fled through the museum's gardens. The Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private museum established in 1977, houses various valuable pieces from artists like Dürer, Rubens, and Monet. Local police suspect an organized gang was behind the crime, which was briefly interrupted by an alarm. The museum has not publicly commented on the theft, as it was closed on the following Monday. This incident is part of a growing trend of high-profile art heists across Europe, following a similar robbery at the Louvre in Paris last October, where thieves made off with jewelry and other items worth €88 million.
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TheFrenchSavage Mar 30, 2026 +20
The Italian job.
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StandUpForYourWights Mar 30, 2026 +7
You were only supposed to blow the bluddy doors off!
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Typingdude3 Mar 30, 2026 +54
If you're a billionaire, you get anything you want. These are probably birthday presents for some oligarchs kid.
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OafintheWH Mar 30, 2026 +6
Hey, they are going to need some company in their bunkers after they blow it all to hell. https://youtu.be/--7LaOH44qc?si=2TrbFRZ7wVcuGEbz
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SasakiDio Mar 30, 2026 +6
The thing is the last time a bunch of renoirs in Sweden were stolen they couldn’t sell them. They were recovered but it took years to get them back.
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nudave Mar 30, 2026 +6
Oh sinner man, where you gonna run to....
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EducationalCicada Mar 30, 2026 +2
I'm here for this reference.
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Far_Cut_ Mar 30, 2026 +2
What's the matter with you rock?
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imaginary_num6er Mar 30, 2026 +5
Now AMD needs to rename their CPU core architecture names
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phantom-firion Mar 30, 2026 +14
I’m reminded of a venture bros scene where a supervillain is trying to sell the Rembrandt’s that were stolen in a real life 1990s heist to a New York Italian mafia Don wearing a tracksuit. The super villain is incredibly posh sipping a cocktail while describing the intricacies of the painting to the mobster who doesn’t give a shit and only “wants the Mona Lisa” to which the supervillain surprised, complains that it’s actuslly a tiny and very ordinary painting in real life and it only first became famous when it was stolen and that these rembrandts were also stolen. Anyway the supervillain gets pissed and kills the mobster only to more pissed and complains to his girlfriend when he realized that it’s going to take all night to get the stains out of Persian rug.
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Somenakedguy Mar 30, 2026 +2
The scene in question: https://youtu.be/wut1rhas50A?si=Yhs5MUghh9IcMm5o God what an amazing show, Phantom Limb is an underrated character
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itsmike7 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Damn, first the 12 tons of KitKats and now this
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ShanzokeyeLin Mar 30, 2026 +10
Damn. I thought they would leave it for those who come after.
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ShanzokeyeLin Mar 30, 2026 +6
Paintings by Renoir, why do I hear boss music
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LoopStricken Mar 30, 2026 +2
Hi, I'm a pair of legs that can talk.
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DebraBaetty Mar 30, 2026 +2
Is there an uptick of art heists recently or is it confirmation bias?
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Kalsto6 Mar 30, 2026 +2
If this keeps happening a lot, Italy will just stop displaying these and that would be a loss to everyone. There's no way to keep something safe all the time.
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Trick_Definition2478 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Three minutes to steal a Renoir, a Cézanne, and a Matisse? I can’t even decide which socks to wear in three minutes. These guys basically treated the museum like a very expensive drive-thru window. It is the ultimate irony: the museum says the response was "rapid," but at that speed, the thieves were probably halfway to the border before the first alarm even finished ringing. The security footage must look like a timelapse playing at 2x speed.
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Kolby_Jack33 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Time is everything. They probably rehearsed dozens of times to get the timing perfect. Police can only respond so fast, so if you get in and out quick enough and leave no traceable evidence, you're basically home free.
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EmmaFrostBroken Mar 30, 2026 +1
But why? It's not like they could sell them anywhere legit?
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omfgeometry Mar 30, 2026 +44
private collectors will still spend millions to keep them in a vault
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HouseOfAplesaus Mar 30, 2026 +15
They sell them in not legit ways. Probably make a premium for job.
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Normal_Cut8368 Mar 30, 2026 +3
TIL, criminal activity profits from criminal activity
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HouseOfAplesaus Mar 30, 2026 +1
It’s that bottom crusty layer where scum suckers thrive
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No_Conversation_9325 Mar 30, 2026 +14
Probably an order by some oligarch
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_ram_ok Mar 30, 2026 +4
When you get to a certain level of rich, you don’t need to do anything legit anymore. Especially if you’re a national of a rogue state where you probably can’t do anything legit anymore anyway
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cench Mar 30, 2026 +2
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AschAschAsch Mar 30, 2026 +2
No need to sell if you were already paid to steal.
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spektre Mar 30, 2026 +3
They melt them down and sell the material. /s
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cosmos_jm Mar 30, 2026 -1
Insurance fraud
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jfranci3 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I feel like I should pull off a heist before all the good art is stolen.
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schrutesanjunabeets Apr 1, 2026 +1
NEIL!!!!!
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