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...Neither police nor the museum's management said whether the 56-year-old parking attendant, who stumbled upon the looted paintings during a routine patrol, will receive any of the $90,000 reward that the museum had offered for information leading to the paintings' recovery...
...paintings are in perfect condition, still in their protective glass casing," says the museum's curator Lukas Gloor, who speculates that the thieves abandoned the two larger paintings because they were too cumbersome to transport...
...While the police has been investigating tips from around the world, a parking attendant at the Burghölzli, Zurich University's psychiatric clinic located less than a mile from the museum, spotted the two paintings in the back seat of an unlocked white Opel Omega sedan with what police say are stolen license plates...
...afternoon of February 10, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa, which houses one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, estimated at $160 million. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...
...Gloor says his museum's security measures are being "looked into." Meanwhile, fearing "copycat thefts," the museum decided to close its doors to the public for an undetermined period of time, though carefully screened and chaperoned group visits can still be arranged...