Thieves steal €3m painting by Brueghel the Younger

Hammer used to break into display case and take the Crucifixion from Italian church
A painting by the 17th-century Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger has been stolen from a church in Italy.The thieves used a hammer to break into a display case housing the Crucifixion in one of the side chapels of Santa Maria Maddalena church in the Ligurian town of Castelnuovo Magra on Wednesday morning. Related: Bruegel museum in Brussels blocked by Belgian bureaucracyContinue reading...