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Black/North SEAS Switzerland: Art Robbery |
Black/North SEAS Switzerland: Art Robbery |
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While
strong memories of invasions, wars, siege and exile remain vivid in
the region, the European Union stretches since recently to the shores
of the Black Sea but peace cannot be taken for granted at its every
spot since there are still places of tension and some contested borders,
and the rifts created by exclusivist demands, hostility and mistrust.
North Sea knows less political tensions but ecology and de-industrialization
hamper the development of its old port cities, commercial interest
clash and fishing quotas hurt, migratory flows alter the population
and provoke new divisions... 
Four
paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas and Monet, worth an estimated
SFR180m, have been stolen from a Swiss museum in what police said
was the largest art robbery in the country's history. A reward of
SFR 100,000 has been offered for any information leading to the recovery
of the paintings. Detectives said three masked men wearing dark clothing
entered the Emil Bührle Foundation half an hour before it closed...