Stolen Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Located Stashed in a Ravine in Greece

ATHENS — When paintings by Picasso and Mondrian and a sketch by the Italian artist Guglielmo Caccia went lacking from the National Gallery in Athens in 2012, it was the beginning of a thriller that lasted for almost a ten years.

That mystery ended this week when the will work by Picasso and Mondrian have been recovered unscathed from a ravine in a forest around Porto Rafti, a city east of Athens.

In custody is not a gang of robbers who planned a Hollywood-type heist, but a 49-year-outdated construction employee, with the Twitter identify ArtFreak, who was arrested on Monday.

The theft appears to have been years in the creating as an obsession with artwork morphed into something prison. The suspect, who was remanded to police custody following showing prior to an investigating justice of the peace on Thursday, is documented to have explained to the law enforcement that he

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