French police began investigating the theft of five works of great masters of painting like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a museum in Paris, one of the largest recent art thefts. The works worth up to hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in the French capital on Wednesday night to Thursday and still not know how or thieves mocked the site's security system, including alarms. Surveillance cameras filmed a masked person inside the museum, but the culture responsible for the City of Paris, Christophe Girard, said he tries to know why the night guards did not see "anything." Girard told reporters outside the museum that the total value of the stolen works by Picasso, Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque and Fernand Leger is less than 100 million euros (U.S. $ 123 million). But the exact value of such works market is difficult to establish and French researchers believe that could rise to the equivalent of U.S. $ 620 million. The disappearance of the paintings was reported on Thursday morning, after museum officials discovered a broken window and a padlock. The museum located on the right bank of the Seine, a few blocks from the Eiffel Tower, was cordoned off by French agents of the scientific and technical police investigating the robbery. Outside the police were setting up and mouths covered with gloves looking at the empty frames of the stolen paintings, but are not reported if the fabrics were cut or removed whole. The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, said he was "saddened and concerned by the theft, which he described as" an intolerable affront to universal cultural heritage "of the city. The stolen works are "Le pigeon aux petits pois," Picasso, "La Pastorale" by Matisse, "La femme à l'eventail" Modigliani, "L'olivier près de l'Estaque, Braque, and "Nature morte aux chandeliers," Leger. In January, thirty works were stolen from a house in Provence, including a Spanish teacher, and in December a painting by Edgar Degas ("Les Choristes") was stolen from a museum in Marseilles. In both cases the losses were estimated at more than one million dollars. A little earlier in the year 2007, two works of Picasso ("Maya poupée" and "Portrait of Jacqueline") were stolen from the house of the daughter of the late painter. The works, valued at tens of millions of dollars, were recovered months later. Experts say this level to sell paintings on the black market is risky and difficult. In fact, some of the major works of art stolen were recently recovered shortly afterwards. To see this page as it was designed, you must use an updated browser, which has enabled the use of cascading style sheets (CSS Cascading Stylesheets in English). While the browser you are using can see the contents of the page will not be presented in the best way possible. Please, consider upgrading your browser and / or enable the use of CSS.

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