France plans tighter security after art thefts
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French authorities plan to boost security in museums and churches across the country after a spate of art thefts, the culture ministry said on Thursday.
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Franceâs art world appears to be losing its political clout, but can a new leader energize the countryâs play-it-safe art scene?
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday his ministry takes the overseas French citizens&#39; security as its first priority following the killing of a Frenchman in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
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Franceâs health minister launched an urgent review of hospital security after the horrific murders of two psychiatric workers that stunned the country.
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Police appealed to the public Friday for help in tracking down stolen jewels once owned by Marie-Antoinette.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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Armed robbers at Swiss museum make off with haul of works by Cezanne, van Gogh and Monet
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France braced for protests after 'brutal' clean-up.
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French officials have found two Picasso paintings which were stolen from the Paris home of the Spanish painter's granddaughter in February, French daily Le Figaro said on Tuesday, adding the thieves had been arrested.
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Paintings and other valuable works of art are stolen almost every day from galleries around the world, the most recent of course being Edvard Munch&#39;s famous &quot;The Scream&quot;.
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France&#39;s police minister vowed on Monday to punish officers who planted explosives in an unwitting plane passenger&#39;s luggage to test their sniffer dogs but then lost the &quot;bomb,&quot; which remains missing after a three-day hunt
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France stepped up security Friday morning at a military hospital outside Paris where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be taken for treatment.
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OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police said Monday that they were working on several tips in their search for two Edvard Munch masterpieces, including a version of "The Scream," after a bold daytime theft from an Oslo museum in front of stunned visitors.    The paintings were stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday by masked, armed thieves, who pulled them from the walls as visitors and staff watched...
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Armed robbers have stolen art worth $100 million, including works by Monet and van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.
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PARIS, FRANCE.- According to French police, two diamonds worth around $14.1 million dollars, were stolen from an antique dealers' show at the Louvre museum.
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French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers&#39; luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris&#39; Charles de Gaulle airport.
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Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday.