‘Electric knife or saw’: How burglars got away with valuable Renoirs in three

Thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window, and stole four valuable Renoir paintings from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

• Two thieves stole four valuable Renoir paintings.
• The theft occurred at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
• The thieves used an electric knife or saw to slice through a fence.
• The operation took less than three minutes.
• The thieves abandoned two of the artworks as they fled.

The operation took less than three minutes, and the thieves abandoned two of the artworks as they fled, prompting a national search for the perpetrators