Gone in 180 seconds: Moment art thieves steal €9 million of works by Cézanne, Matisse and Renoir from museum

Paintings worth more than €9million (£7.7million) were stolen in just three minutes by masked thieves from a museum in northern Italy.

Video showed the thieves sneaking into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma to steal the works by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse in just 180 seconds.

After being stolen on March 22, the paintings have now been recovered, Italian police said on Friday.

Two thieves wearing balaclavas and head torches were caught on video breaking through a window to enter the museum.

They stole three paintings – Fish by Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Paul Cezanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Henri

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