Un malfrat corse negocie la vente d’une toile volée aupres des yakuzas.
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00:00 A malfracorce negotiates the sale of a canvas stolen from the Yakuza.
00:03 Painted in 1872 and present at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1974,
00:11 "Impression, Sun, Wind" gave its name to the current of Impressionism,
00:14 but at the time it was heavily criticized and was bought for 800 francs,
00:18 that is about 3000 euros today.
00:20 More than a century later, in 1985,
00:23 five armed men arrive at the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris where the work is in full swing.
00:29 They want to publish it and steal nine paintings, including "Impression, Sun, Wind" by Claude Monet.
00:35 Once the investigation of five years continues, photos are leaked to Japan via a member of a gang of Kors.
00:39 The government at the time even tries to buy the works for 1 million francs, that is 155,000 euros.
00:45 At the same time, the gang of Kors negotiates the sale of the works to the Japanese mafia,
00:50 which ordered the robbery.
00:51 The paintings were finally found intact in a Porto Vecchia apartment in 1990.
00:57 Nobody dared to buy them.