Chapter 518: No More Hope
If you ask what the biggest news in the world is these days, it is this robbery, and there is no news more than the theft of Fang Yi and Bobille's works. The works of the two people together are 80 million US dollars, and the insurance limit is also well-known to the public.
In just a few days, the headlines of major European and American newspapers were prominently reporting on the progress of the theft in Paris. As for the news on TV, it is endless, what crime experts are found to analyze and restore what crime scenes, and why the case happened this way, anyway, for a while, many people's so-called experts said that it was like a head, and the so-called latest progress in the case is endless.
"Is that progress? There is also a heavy discovery of the case! Fang Yi and Zhang Xu and Li Lin, who were lying on the sand chief of the hotel, watched the TV together, and a French TV owner said that the case had made some progress. The reason for this was to find the source of the materials used by these criminals to make the smoke.
However, Fang Yi didn't think so, now the process of these thieves has come out, although the number of people who participated in the crime is unknown, but in general there should be no less than six people, and these six people have a good understanding of the scene and how to take pictures, and they are even more precious about the location of monitoring.
Speaking of the steps are also very simple, a few people enter the door, put a dozen or so numbers of smoke in the hidden places on the second and third floors, and within a few seconds the entire second and third floors are filled with smoke, and then turn on the alarm bell of the fire alarm, causing confusion among the personnel.
Then the men calmly took down the painting. Then he blended into the crowd with the painting, and when he went out, he didn't even bring a painting tube, and it looked like he slipped out of the crowd with him in his arms.
"The security company you hired is a bit too wasteful!" Li Lin said to Fang Yi while looking at the TV screen: "In broad daylight, a few little thieves can snatch the painting away under their noses!" ”。
Zhu Zheng. Lu Qikun and these people went back to China together as soon as the preview was over, and Khima didn't have much fun in Paris, so they also went back to Los Angeles together.
Only Zhang Xu and Li Lin stayed in Paris together, and the two of them had to wait for the Soffobi autumn shoot in the United States, and they had a lot of time, and they couldn't stay in the hotel all the time watching TV, right? What's more, Li Lin is also coming to France for the first time, and he always has to go around Paris, Lyon, Marseille or something. Isn't it a rising insight?
The two of them were moving to the Bordeaux winery, and they heard that Fang Yi's painting was robbed in broad daylight, thinking that Fang Yi had suffered a lot of loss. Naturally, they rushed back, ready to come to their side to comfort their friend's sadness of losing the dollar, and when they heard that it was not their friend who lost their friend, the insurance company, the two of them were a little unconcerned.
This is not! Two people who have just returned to the hotel. The gift box was still in the living room of Fang Yi's room. Just like Fang Yi, he sat lazily on the sofa and watched TV.
"Seriously, if you want to grab the artwork with a high success rate and get out of the way, you really have to choose the daytime!" Fang Yi clasped his hands behind his head, lifted his feet on the coffee table, and sat in the most comfortable position, and did the music and what he knew to the two turtle friends.
"What's the explanation?!" Zhang Xu was a little puzzled, and asked Fang Yi.
Fang Yi was fine anyway, so let's talk: "Let's say so!" In all the places where there are two or three million dollars worth of art, security measures are at their strongest at night. Not to mention all kinds of alarms, even the security personnel are the most alert at this time. Do you think you can steal something from a wire on a rooftop like a TV? What thieves can think of, and security companies can't think of it? Not to mention what else this alarm system is on site. What kind of thing is that?"
"Is it credible?" Li Lin was a little unconvinced, as far as this matter was concerned, the main problem was the relaxed vigilance of the security personnel. This smoke generator, and it is also a home-made smoke generator, and it is very telling that it can be brought in.
Fang Yile said hehehe: "If you want to successfully steal art, you don't want to be as high-tech as in the movie, how dazzling your skills are, and if you steal and rob like this, you have to go to prison." I don't know about grabbing other things, but it seems that few people use high-tech in the big and successful cases of grabbing art, there are only two principles! ”。
Speaking of this, Fang Yi stretched out his hand and clenched it into a fist, first stretched out a finger and then another one: "The first method is simple and rude, and the second is to have a little luck!" These two are enough! ”。
"Huh!" Zhang Xu and Li Lin both got a little better when they heard this, and immediately urged Fang Yi to tell the story.
Next, Fang Yi told the most famous stories of robbery paintings that he knew:
First of all, the theft of the "Mona Lisa" in 1911 was carried directly into the gown by an Italian, and he went out with such a big bundle.
"What am I talking about, it's all in 1911, can the current level of science and technology be comparable to that time! At that time, they were all a bunch of natives, and when Contra didn't even come out, could it still be regarded as a modern society? As soon as Li Lin heard that Fang Yi was telling the story of 1911, he was a little disdainful.
"Feelings, your judgment is divided by the time of the appearance of "Contra"?" Zhang Xu looked at Li Linle and said, "No wonder the kid got the college entrance examination and looked like that, but my brother went to Shicheng Institute of Technology instead!" ”。
Of course, Li Lin now sees the matter of going to college openly, and to put it bluntly, Comrade Li Lin is now doing a small business, and he has a little money, so naturally this little mood is also very good. The previous thing was to say this as a thing, and it couldn't arouse Mr. Li's hurtful feelings.
"People who haven't even got a degree certificate are embarrassed to say this!" Li Lin glanced at Zhang Xu disdainfully: "Brother is a person with a degree, and he is not as knowledgeable as you!" ”。
After finishing speaking, he raised his hand at Fang Yi: "Fang Yi, you continue."
"That's it! Then I'll talk about the most recent one" Fang Yi began to continue talking after hearing this, and this time what he said was much closer. And it is also the most famous case, which happened in Boston.
In 1990, two robbers posed as police officers and robbed 13 paintings from the Gardner Museum of Art in Boston, and the two robbers used the pretext of a riot in the neighborhood to deceive the museum into opening the museum's doors.
The method is also very, very simple. It's so simple that it's outrageous. Taking advantage of the fact that there was a fire in a place not far away (it is estimated that this fire has something to do with these two people), the two dressed as police officers and said that they wanted to check the fire-fighting equipment in the museum, so they easily deceived the door and tied up the security guards.
Then, for the next eighty minutes, the two unhurriedly selected the works in the museum, and then took away the selected thirteen.
However, according to later sources, it was believed that the two criminals did not know much about art. Because there are several equally valuable works of art, such as Rembrandt's self-portrait, which have been removed from the frame. But in the end, the robbers didn't know why they didn't take it away, and chose something else. If you want to take it away, I am afraid that it will not be 500 million US dollars, but maybe 700 million.
These twenty years. The police in the United States have no clue about this case. The FBI and the museum offered $5 million. And anyone who sends these 13 paintings back can get it. The implication of this reward may be: Even if you rob it, we are not ready to pursue it, as long as you send back the thirteen works, you can take the 5 million and leave!
To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to buying back the lost thirteen works from the robbers for $5 million.
Obviously, the value of $5 million and $500 million is still known to two 'artless' robbers, and of course, even if it is sold for less than $500 million on the black market, it is not one or two 5 million that can be passed away.
Or maybe the robbers don't think the FBI has much credit. On the contrary, there is no whereabouts of any paintings, and now these thirteen works are still like a mystery. Until now, these works have not returned to the museum.
In 2000, three armed bandits stormed the National Museum in Stockholm, scattered the frightened tourists, took three masterpieces, including a self-portrait of Rembrandt, and fled in a motorboat. This is the violence that is directly to the extreme, and the method is almost the same as snatching bags on the street.
Also in this year, the late British artist Francis? Bacon to Lucien? Freud's portrait was stolen from the Neues State Gallery in Berlin in broad daylight.
In 2003, two people who robbed the painting pretended to be tourists, blended in with the tourists, waited for the tour guide, and then left with Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting! This is what happened in the UK. The cost of two thieves is £6 for a ticket!
The whole story made the expressions of Zhang Xu and Li Lin a little silly.
Zhang Xu said to Fang Yi: "You all know about these people, the security company must know, so why is there still such a thing as you?" Isn't there anyone who thinks they can be more vigilant? ”。
Fang Yi said with a wry smile: "There are only a thousand days to be a thief, where is the reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days!" And when there are so many people during the day, the spirit of the security personnel will be relaxed, and there are so many people on the scene, where can they see it! ”。
Another reason for the robbery of this work is that there are more people watching the October exhibition now, one is more than the other, and this time the public exhibition, although it is not free, only three European symbolic tickets are collected in Paris, and there is a long queue of more than ten meters at the entrance of the entire exhibition hall, many of whom come with their families.
There are a lot of people entering the museum here, and the number of security guards is limited, so naturally the mistake comes. And it was very coincidentally caught by robbers. And this security company has been working together for four years, and in terms of mental concentration, maybe some of these security guards have also relaxed their vigilance a little.
"Then do you think your paintings can be recovered?" Li Lin glanced at the TV screen and asked Fang Yi.
Fang Yi also glanced up at the news on TV that said that the police had made some progress, shook his head and said, "I guess there is no hope, and now it's the fourth day!" ”。
This judgment is not Fang Yijie, but the news that Zou Heming got from a police friend, I heard this person say that the case seems to have a detection period, like forty-eight hours or seventy-two hours, that is to say, the possibility of solving the case within this time frame is the greatest, and there is not much hope for the case beyond this time.
"By the way, I said you tell me thoroughly, would you rather take the painting back or be stolen?" Zhang Xu asked Fang Yi, who had nothing to do with him, with a look on his face.
Fang Yi listened to the honest answer: "It doesn't matter if I come back or not, but Zou Heming really wants to get it back!" ”。
Because Fang Yi and Bobil tried the work, the pre-sale price has exceeded 22 million. The painting came back, and Zou Heming was able to get more than two million cents more money here. A businessman like Zou Heming, who has lost money, doesn't want to let go of this mosquito leg meat.
Perhaps in order to confirm Fang Yi's seventy-two hour statement, early the next morning, the insurance company and the French police jointly issued a reward order: as long as anyone can provide useful clues, they can get a reward of 10,000 to 20,000 euros, and the reward for providing heavy clues to help solve the case is 500,000 euros!
Fang Yi watched this bounty order leave France and prepared to leave for Italy, while Zhang Xu and Li Lin continued to follow Fang Yi to Italy. (To be continued......)