PARIS (AP) — Police and prosecutors say a lone thief has stolen five paintings worth a total of 500 million ($613 million), including works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight theft from a Paris modern art museum.
The paintings were reported missing early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, according to Paris police. Investigators have cordoned off the museum in one of the French capital’s most tourist-frequented neighborhoods.
