Van Gogh Stolen in Cairo

by UNCENSORED NEWS | August 22, 2010 at 12:27 pm

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Two italian men suspected of stealing a beautiful Van Gogh painting from Mahmoud Khalil museum in Cairo may have been apprehended in the airport but this report still remain unclear.

"News of the painting's theft -- known as both the "Poppy Flowers" or "Vase With Flowers" -- broke Saturday when Egypt's Minister of Culture announced that the $50 million work of art had been "cut from its frame" while on show at the Mahmoud Khalil museum."

According to Middle East Online Culture Minister Farouq Hosni told Egypt's official MENA news agency that "the work identified as Poppy Flowers and valued at more than 50 million dollars, was found with two Italians in the Cairo airport hours after its theft from a city museum on Saturday."

Evidently, reporters thought the painting was recovered but the report is inaccurate.

Exactly what has happened to the two Italians supposedly held by Egyptian police is unclear. Caterina Gioiella, a consular official at Italy's embassy in Cairo, today told news agency ANSA that no Italians had been arrested in connection with the missing painting.