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Brussels chateau robbed of much art


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BRUSSELS, Feb 9, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A large-scale burglary at a Brussels chateau was discovered Thursday morning.

The newspaper Het Nieuwsblad reports the thieves appear to have been experts who knew enough to leave a small painting that happens to be a copy hanging on the wall, while making off with millions of dollars worth of tapestry and pictures.

A gardener at the Chateau Grand-Bigard discovered a door in the castle's residential wing was open when he arrived for work Thursday. He called police.

Investigators were trying to get a detailed inventory of missing items Thursday.

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