Police suspect Germans were killed for Stradivarius violins

A Stradivarius violin from the Spanish royal collection, displayed in Madrid in 2003. Paraguayan police said November 10 they have detained two Germans and a Chilean suspected of killing a German man and his daughter while trying to get documents proving the authenticity of four Stradivarius violins. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Hakan Svensson. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
A Stradivarius violin from the Spanish royal collection, displayed in Madrid in 2003. Paraguayan police said November 10 they have detained two Germans and a Chilean suspected of killing a German man and his daughter while trying to get documents proving the authenticity of four Stradivarius violins. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Hakan Svensson. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
A Stradivarius violin from the Spanish royal collection, displayed in Madrid in 2003 and unrelated to the case discussed in this article. Paraguayan police said November 10 that they have detained two Germans and a Chilean suspected of killing a German man and his daughter while trying to get documents that prove the authenticity of four Stradivarius violins. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Hakan Svensson. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) – Paraguayan police said November 10 that they have detained two Germans and a Chilean suspected of killing a German man and his daughter while trying to get documents proving the authenticity of valuable violins.

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