The suspected theft of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and France Hals was arrested in the Netherlands

The Dutch police announced today, Tuesday, the arrest of a suspect in the theft of two paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and France Hals in the Netherlands.
Moscow – Sputnik. “A year after the masterpiece was stolen in Laren, a 58-year-old man from Barne has been arrested, suspected of stealing a painting” Van Gogh “and a painting by France Hals. The location of the paintings remains unknown,” the police statement said on Twitter.

It is reported that last March, the painting “The Garden of Der Noonen in the Spring – (1884)”, which was painted by “Van Gogh” while he was in his father’s house, was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum complex in the Netherlands. In August, a painting by France Hals entitled “Two Young People Laughing” (1626-1627) was stolen from a museum in Leardam.

At the time, Reuters reported that the painting was borrowed from the Groniger Museum, noting that its value is estimated at between one million euros and six million, according to local sources, as its material value has not yet been officially announced.