Stolen Picassos, Worth $66 Million, Recovered As They're About To Be Sold

AFP:

Two men arrested for stealing Picasso masterpieces from the Paris flat of the artist's granddaughter, were on the verge of striking a deal to sell the works, police said on Wednesday.

Police surveillance teams arrested the suspected thieves and would-be buyer, who has a criminal record for burglary, in the upmarket 16th arrondissement of Paris on Tuesday morning. The trio were being held for questioning.

Two paintings and a drawing by the Spanish master Pablo Picasso, together worth more than 50 million euros (66 million dollars), were taken from the Left Bank apartment of Diana Widmaier-Picasso as she lay sleeping on February 26.

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