Zone Four
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 197 of 200.
Rotterdam, Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 8 am. A large exhibition gallery beside a museum park is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the show “Avant-Gardes”. At 3:02 am the motion sensor in the west wing went off.
The patrol car arrived at 3:07 am and found the emergency door pushed to and seven empty hooks on the wall. Seven modern paintings, lent by a foundation of collectors and valued at 90 million euros, were gone.
The emergency door did not trip the alarm. Nobody watches the building from the inside at night: only the cameras and the control room of a security firm.
Three people knew the panel, the key or the hooks of this wing. One of them knows where the paintings are.
Exhibition hall of a modern gallery in Rotterdam, 2012, with seven empty hooks on the wall and police tape.
Suspects
Femke OosterhuisControl room operator at the security firm, 34
Jurgen BakelaarAssistant curator in charge of the exhibition, 58
Mattias VeldkampContract installer with the art haulage company that hung the exhibition, 31
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