How the Spiderman of Paris Vjeran Tomic pulled off 100 million euro art heist
20.10.2023 - 13:17
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One of France's most prolific art thieves has revealed how he pulled off France's biggest art heist in the latest Netflix true crime documentary, The Spiderman Of Paris.
Vjeran Tomic stole five pieces of art from the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2010. He was dubbed the Spiderman of Paris thanks to the parkour-style climbing skills he used to scale large buildings, including apartments, to help him steal.
Vjeran himself features in the hour and a half film, which released on Netflix on Friday October 20. Here's how he pulled off such a huge feat and stole five iconic paintings - which to this day have never been recovered.
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Vjeran was born in Paris in 1968, but soon moved to Bosnia to live with his grandma. While living there, he committed his first theft at 10 years old.
The youngster climbed through a library window and stole two books, which were later returned. As he grew older, he began stealing from affluent neighbours and eventually found he had a flair for scaling multi-story buildings.
In 2000, the self-proclaimed art lover used a crossbow, ropes and a caribiner to break into an apartment to steal two Renoirs, a Derain, an Utrillo, a Braque and other works of art, worth more than a million euros.
A decade later, at the age of 49, he pulled off France's biggest art heist, stealing more than 100 million euros worth of paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art. He first noticed the building while walking near the River Seine.
Something stood out to him; one of the museum's windows was blocked from the