Security forces in the Netherlands have arrested a man in the town of Baarn for his alleged responsibility in the theft of various works of art, including a painting by Vincent van Gogh that was stolen a year ago from the Singer Museum. when it was closed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authorities have identified the suspect, detained in his own home, as a 58-year-old man. However, there is no record for now of the whereabouts of the works the disappearance is attributed to him, according to the television channel NOS.
Investigators link him to the disappearance of Van Gogh’s work ‘Spring Garden’, stolen from Laren’s Singer Museum on March 30, and another by Frans Hals, ‘Two Smiling Children’, which was stolen nearly five times. months after the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden art gallery in the town of Leerdam.