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In the ashes of the furnace Romanian found the remains of paint and canvas

It seems that the mother of the suspect in the robbery of Rotterdam museum really burned paintings by Gauguin, Monet and other official examination results will be announced on next week

Director of the National History Museum of Romania Ernest Oberlander-Tarnovyanu
Source: news.yahoo.com

In the ashes of the furnace Dogaru Olga, the mother of the suspect in the robbery of the Museum Kunsthalle Rotterdam , found the remains of paint, canvas and nails. This was the director of the National History Museum of Romania Ernest Oberlander-Tarnovyanu (Ernest Oberlander-Tarnoveanu) said in an interview with Associated Press. Romanian specialists have found small pieces of primer, paint and canvas, as well as copper and steel nails started earlier twentieth century. However, the director of the museum is not yet ready to declare with absolute certainty that this is the remains of those same seven paintings stolen from a museum in Rotterdam. Oberlander-Tarnovyanu said that studies are conducted with the ashes of March, and that they plan to submit the results of the examination lawyers next week.

Olga Dogaru, mother of the suspect in the robbery Radu Dogaru, previously told police, the paintings of Matisse, Gauguin, Monet, Picasso, Lusiena Freud and Meyer de Hahn at first she hid in an abandoned house and then buried in the cemetery of the village Karakliu, and then burned in a furnace. « After her son in January 2013 was arrested , I was very scared, knowing how seriously what he had done because they had stolen things such securities. My fear is strengthened ... and the fact that I could not contact Radu, I could not come to him in prison because my passport had expired, "- told police Olga Dogaru. After she got in touch with her friend's son and asked her for help with the pictures. At the request of the mother of the suspect, she burned the pictures to protect her son ("if the pictures did not find, there will be evidence against the son, and the other suspects, and they will not plant"). "I'm a suitcase stuffed with seven paintings in the oven without opening it, threw pieces of wood, shoes and rubber overshoes, where I went, and waited until everything is burned to ashes." Olga Dogaru accused of causing serious harm, punishable by a term of 10 to 20 years in prison.

In the case of the robbery of the museum are Dogaru Rada (the son of Olga Dogaru) ezhene Dari and Adrian Prokop. As it became known to the investigators at the Museum Kunsthal they were after did not find anything that could have been then sell in Rotterdam Museum of Natural History. The suspects, who needed the money, raided the public areas of Rotterdam in search of valuable items that can be stolen and sold on the black market. After the Museum of Natural History, where they found only stuffed birds and animals, they went to the Kunsthal. When they looked after robbing future goal, then pay attention to the paintings of famous artists (his opinion about how well known authors, they were based on information from the Internet).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : news.yahoo.com , bbc.co.uk , nineoclock.ro , artinvestment.ru


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