Eight-year sentence for the Van Gogh and Frans Hals thefts
The Midden-Nederland District Court sentenced a 59-year-old man from Baarn to eight years in prison for stealing a Van Gogh from Singer Laren in March 2020 and Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys from Leerdam in August 2020, alongside other offences. This was a first-instance judgment; both paintings remained missing at that date.
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