Two Italians were stopped by police at Cairo airport last night trying to flee Egypt with a Vincent van Gogh painting that had been stolen just hours earlier.
The £32 million painting, known as Poppy Flowers or Vase With Flowers, was taken from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum on the banks of the Nile.
Egypt’s culture minister Farouk Hosni said airport security confiscated the oil painting from an Italian man and a woman.
One Egyptian official, who asked not to be named, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘It is believed the thief cut the painting from the frame and hid it in his suit.’
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