Two men attempted to steal a prized Claude Monet painting from a museum in the Netherlands, though the robbery was foiled and the suspects fled empty-handed, according to Dutch police.
Gunshots were fired during the botched raid at the Zaans Museum in Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam, though nobody was injured in the incident, a police statement confirmed.
The oil painting in question, Monet's"The Voorzaan and the Westerhem," is currently being inspected for damage, the museum said over email., museum staff and bystanders intervened and successfully stopped the theft. The two men then fled on a black scooter, which was later recovered by police. "The Voorzaan and the Westerhem" pictured in 2015, after the Zaans Museum purchased it for almost $1.4 million."We are relieved to say that nobody got hurt and that they were unable to steal anything," the museum's acting director Marieke Verweij told CNN via email, adding that staff had been"very shocked" by the incident.
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