Greek police recover stolen paintings, including Picasso worth 16.5 million euros

To mislead the guards, they had set off the alarm system several times in various other places in the museum, only to enter the building early in the morning through a balcony door. The security officers had temporarily turned off the alarm, and as a result, the thieves did not see the motion detector until too late. During the chase, one of the thieves dropped a fourth painting, a work by Mondrian from 1905 entitled Landscape. It is still one of the largest art thefts in recent Greek history. The museum has since improved its surveillance.

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