Works worth $180m were put in car boot

THE robbers who committed one of the world's biggest art robberies in a Zurich museum drove off with $180 million worth of impressionist paintings sticking out of the boot of their car.

The three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, and brandishing handguns, burst into the gated villa of the Emile Buhrle Foundation, a private collection housed on the shore of Lake Zurich, about 4.30pm on Sunday, just before closing time...

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