Security camera footage released by police and broadcast on a Dutch crime show reveals how an art thief smashed through reinforced glass doors at the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands in the early hours of 30 March. All it took was a few swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone
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The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.
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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
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