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The theft of The Mona Lisa 1911
Filed Under (Brott & Straff, english, Historia) by Targenor on 27-08-2009
On Aug 20th 1911 the space where Mona Lisa was hanging was found empty.
It was a crime that shook France, the borders where closed and heavily garded.
Art enemies whers suspected, Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso where among the suspects but they where later removed from the list.
As longer the time went the people feard that Mona Lisa had ben destroyed or sold to a collector and never would bee returned to the Louvre.
Then the french police reviced a word from the Italian police, they had arrested a man that had visited Uffziz Gallery in Florence to have Mona Lisa repaired and selling it afterwards.
The man was named Vincenzo Perugia.
He had alone stolen the masterpiece, and may have been a part of a group to inflate the price of forged Mona Lisas.
He lost contact whit the group and decided to sell the painting himself. January 4th 1914 Mona Lisa was returned to Louvre. Perugia was seen as a patriot and served only a few months in prison.
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