Peter and Danielle Le Guennec were sentenced to two years suspended sentence by the Criminal Court of Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes. They were convicted of concealment of 271 works by Pablo Picasso and are now obliged to return the works to the family (the justice had already entered).
"You take me for a thief," said Pierre Le Guennec at the exit of the court.
"That's what makes you the worst _?" Asked a radio journalist Europe 1.
"Ah, yes, yes, then."
Picasso's heirs had complained when the spouses Le Guennec had wanted them to authenticate these works there five years. Now that they have won the case, what are they going to do with these drawings estimated at several million euros?
"Putting them together and then make them available to the public in one way or another, but in an organized manner, detailed, thoughtful," said Claude Ruiz-Picasso.
Pierre Le Guennec, who worked as an electrician in the Picasso villa in Mougins, near Cannes, told the trial that he received a box containing the works in the early 70 hands even Jacqueline Picasso, the last woman in the artist.
For 40 years, these drawings would have remained in his garage.
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