the search for The perpetrators was difficult, because there are only a few images were of the operation. There were some vague images of the thieves on the ladder, but the roof itself was nothing to be seen, despite the security cameras in the museum. Security guards and cleaners who, at the time of the robbery in the museum were, said that they saw nothing.
Yet, at the beginning of 2003 two suspects in the picture, after a tip from a police informant. Detectives listened and then the phone calls of the two and observed them. It took until the end of that year before they were arrested.
In 2004, received the then 31-year-old Henk B. and Octave D. (31), respectively, 4 and 4,5 years of imprisonment imposed. According to the court, was the evidence conclusive: on a hat and a hat that they were lost in the looting, was the dna of the men were found. The two have always denied that they the operation have committed.
But even though the perpetrators were sentenced, were the paintings are still missing. Already in 2010, a high officer who, in Italy, that the paintings probably in command of the mafia, the Neapolitan Camorra, were stolen. The Van Gogh Museum praised at the time, 100,000 euros for the tip that would lead to the retrieval of the paintings. It helped not to solve the case.
Last Monday was the Van Gogh Museum, the redeeming phone call from Italy. In a raid in Naples were two paintings are found, most likely stolen Van Gogh. They were in the possession of a maffiaclan, which is part of the Camorra and is engaged in international drug trafficking.
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