• lntl@lemmy.mlOP
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    16 hours ago

    The article doesn’t indicate any contact from thieves seeking a ransom. I imagine they’d get more money for it on the black market than they would w a ransom anyway. With that said, French gov spends money of crazy stuff all the time so who knows?

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      1 hour ago

      They can’t sell famous paintings. Anyone buying them can’t show them anywhere either. It’s too hot to sell. It’s usually insurance scamming or ransoming them according to a recent article about a similar theft that just happened from some siciliain church in messina by the guardian I think, maybe reuters.

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        22 minutes ago

        Anyone buying them can’t show them anywhere either. It’s too hot to sell.

        except for their personal yachts and to their likeminded friends – something that no longer exists on social media and goes to prove that practices are more effective at curbing social media than any law could ever be.