A Dutchman has actually been incarcerated for 8 years for swiping useful paints by Vincent van Gogh as well as Frans Hals.
The 59-year-old male was founded guilty of burglary from 2 little Dutch galleries in 2014 as well as handed the optimum jail sentence.
Neither of the paints, worth a number of million euros each, have actually been recuperated.
The court listened to just how the suspect had actually taken the Van Gogh paint “The Parsonage Yard at Nuenen in Springtime 1884” from the Vocalist Laren gallery near Amsterdam in March 2020.
A couple of months later on, he additionally nabbed the 17th century “2 Chuckling Young Boys” by Hals from the Gallery Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden in Leerdam.
The Main Netherlands Court stated that the Hals paint alone was valued at EUR16 million euros.
Both art work were defined by the court as “component of the nationwide social heritage, they are very important for existing as well as future generations”.
The 59-year-old suspect was jailed in April this year in Baarn, around 10 kilometres from the Vocalist Laren gallery.
He had actually burglarized both galleries in the evening as well as ran away on a motorised mobility scooter, which was driven by an associate.
The suspect, that has actually formerly been founded guilty for a comparable art break-in, rejected participation.
Authorities located his DNA at both criminal activity scenes.
