Stolen Renoir paintings found behind wall in France following arrests
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- The two works were seized last month when thieves cut through a fence and smashed a window at the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera.
- Officials also said that six suspects had been arrested in the robbery, which targeted a museum in southern France last month.
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- Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera last month and made off with two paintings. The heist follows a string of high-profile robberies from European museums.
- Thieves had initially taken four pieces with a value of over $10 million, but dropped two as they fled. Officials praised everyone that tracked down the paintings, but didn't reveal how they found them.
- The recovered Renoir paintings, valued at millions, were stolen in a daring heist at Cagnes-sur-Mer last month.
- Renoir art heist suspects were planning 'imminent' second robbery, prosecutors say.