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
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 company dedicated to the search for works of art stolen or missing informed the police a person, residing in Sitges, had undergone a telematic consultation on one of the five stolen paintings, to ascertain whether it was listed as stolen.
The email consultation incorporated unpublished photographs of oil with which the researchers found the model of camera that had been made and the date of collection.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 hirer team photographic, who turned out to be one of the authors of the robbery suspects, which was located and arrested.
Among others arrested include 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 who considered the greatest theft of contemporary art in Spain, have been paroled accused of burglary and cover-up.
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