{"id":90500,"date":"2017-02-21T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90500"},"modified":"2017-02-21T00:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:23:39","slug":"3-convicted-in-100-million-euro-paris-modern-art-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/21\/3-convicted-in-100-million-euro-paris-modern-art-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"3 convicted in 100 million euro Paris modern art heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_90502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90502\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mus\u00e9e_dArt_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90502\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mus\u00e9e_dArt_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris.jpg\" alt=\"An agile thief nicknamed \u201cspiderman,\u201d an antiques dealer and an art expert have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay the city of Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city's Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros. (Photo by Maciej Zgadzaj [CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mus\u00e9e_dArt_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mus\u00e9e_dArt_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mus\u00e9e_dArt_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An agile thief nicknamed \u201cspiderman,\u201d an antiques dealer and an art expert have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay the city of Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city&#8217;s Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros. (Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMus%C3%A9e_d'Art_moderne_de_la_Ville_de_Paris.jpg\">by Maciej Zgadzaj [CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>PARIS\u2014An agile thief nicknamed \u201cspiderman,\u201d an antiques dealer and an art expert have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay the city of Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city&#8217;s Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings \u2014 by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque and Fernand Leger \u2014 have not been seen since the dramatic 2010 heist.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris court on Monday convicted \u201cSpiderman\u201d Vjeran Tomic of stealing the paintings and sentenced him to eight years in prison. Jean-Michel Corvez, the antiques dealer who orchestrated the theft, was sentenced to seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Yonathan Birn, who stored the paintings and told the court he destroyed them out of fear of getting caught, screamed at the judge who sentenced him to six years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS\u2014An agile thief nicknamed \u201cspiderman,\u201d an antiques dealer and an art expert have been sentenced to prison and ordered to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[15507,15508],"class_list":["post-90500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","category-entertainment","tag-modern-art-museum","tag-paris-modern-art-heist","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}