A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security
Italian authorities are investigating a series of high-profile art thefts from museums, including the Magnani Rocca Foundation and the Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale. While some stolen works have been recovered by the carabinieri, other significant pieces remain missing following brazen heists.
In late March, a gang used a tractor to batter down a fence before two masked burglars broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private museum about 12 miles from the northern Italian city of Parma. They climbed in through a window door, and grabbed three paintings off the wall before disappearing – the whole operation caught on camera, yet completed in under three minutes.
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