Police arrest 7 people for stealing Bacon’s paintings still missing – Investing.com Spain

By Ana Vicario

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Saturday arrested seven people for allegedly stealing five paintings of the painter Francis Bacon valued at 25 million euros, although so far it has not been possible to recover them.

The paintings were stolen in July 2015 in a home in Madrid with a safe with coin collections, jewelry and other valuables, while the owner was in London, recalled the police in a press release on Saturday.

the operation, which remains open in order to recover the paintings, thudded in February when a British private entity dedicated the search for stolen works of art or reported missing to police that a person domiciled in Sitges, had undergone a telematic consultation on one of the five stolen, to ascertain whether it was listed as stolen paintings.

The email consultation incorporated unpublished photographs of oil with which the researchers found the model of camera that had been made and the date of collection.

With this information managed to locate the rental company and the renter of photographic equipment, who proved to be one of the authors of the robbery suspects, which was located and arrested.

Among others arrested they are an art dealer in Madrid and his son who were interested in the progress of works and also received the photographs.

According to the newspaper El País, detainees by considering the greatest theft of contemporary art in Spain, have been paroled accused of burglary and cover-up.

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