Police say armed robbers steal art worth $100 million from a Zurich museum.

AP via brietbart ^ | Feb 11, 2008 | ap

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ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Police say armed robbers steal art worth $100 million from a Zurich museum.

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Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Monet works stolen in Zurich: police

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These will be on display next year in the White House.

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"These will be on display next year in the White House."

You assume the x-42's become the 44's ?

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yes, that’s the terrible assumption.

[joan]

The suspects are said to be 3 Albanian men which is no surprise for me and probably neither for DTA, as we are aware of Albanian gangs preying on the very wealthy and banks of Switzerland, Italy, Spain and other countries for years now. They are very bold, violent/armed, and usually successful in getting away with their expensive loot:

www.thefirstpost.co.uk

"According to informed sources in the London insurance industry, the robbery on Sunday of paintings by Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Cezanne from the Emil Buhrle Foundation in Zurich was carried out by Albanian criminals. Three armed men entered the gallery, took the four works and drove away in a white car with the paintings hanging out of the boot. There have been no arrests."

[DTA]

Ah, Albanian art lovers at work.

No sane person would steal well known paintings, they are too hot to be sold to anyone or kept in private vault.

But if destroyed, gallery could get $100M from the pool of insurance companies. And Insurance company can have quite a loss, that can be a windfall for persons having a foreknowledge of the theft. Right people could profit quite handsomely from this.

Those gangsters are actually commando style units trained by the U.S. Germnany and Albania. With Pentagon's help, they got hold of quite sophisticated hi tech equipment.

The question is, who hired them.

I would pay attention to shady financiers with the close ties with the Swiss financial institutions AND Albanian narcoterrrorists. Especially if they like art.

Mark Rich comes first to mind.

[joan]

“This case is extremely similar to the 2004 theft of Madonna from Oslo’s Edvard Munch Museum, where the gang also came in with balaclavas, waving pistols all over the place and a group of Kosovan Albanians was found responsible. This lot will most likely be caught,” Hill says.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

[DTA]

perhaps Kosovo Albanian gangsters plan to open "kosovarish museum" and fill it with looted artifacts.

Since EU suppoerts Kosovo Albanian gangsters, they should go and help themselves in Louvre, National Galllery and Alte Pinakothek.