ROBBER ON THE RUN: Here's one of the photos, taken from a security camera at the Munch Museum, of one of the two men who stormed into the museum and snatched two famous paintings.
AND HIS ACCOMPLICE: Here's the other robber, who waved a gun while threatening museum visitors.
STOLEN: "The Scream" is the most famous of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's paintings. Painted in 1893, the painting is widely viewed as a portrayal of anxiety over the human condition, something officials at the Munch Museum were clearly feeling on Monday.
STOLEN: Munch's "Madonna" was also torn off the wall at the Munch Museum during Sunday's robbery. It was painted in 1893-94 and five versions of it are known to exist today.
SCENE OF THE CRIME: Police cordoned off the museum and began questioning the roughly 70 staff members and visitors who were inside the museum when the robbers stormed in around 11am.
THE GETAWAY: Two of the three robbers involved ran out of the museum, each carrying a painting. They headed for this waiting Audi, parked just outside the museum's entrance.
PARTNERS IN CRIME: A third man was waiting with the car, with its motor running. An observant passerby took this photo.
MOVED QUICKLY: Police think it took less than a minute for the robbers to grab the paintings and make their getaway, after waving a gun and threatening onlookers.
ALARM: Police got their first call on the robbery at 11:10am. Some shaken tourists inside the museum said they thought it took a long time before police were on the scene.
FIELDING QUESTIONS: The robbery was big news both at home and abroad. Police operations leader Lasse Alver met reporters Sunday afternoon.
GETAWAY CAR ABANDONED: Police later found the getaway car, a dark Audi, parked on Sinsenveien near a loal tennis club.
FRAME FRAGMENTS: Parts of the frame from one of the two Munch paintings were found along another steet near the Munch Museum, called Sars gate.
SHOCKED VISITORS: There were dozens of witnesses to the robbery, including Mary Vassiliou, an American tourist from New Jersey. She witnessed one of the robbers trying to get "The Scream" off the wall and claimed panic broke out in the museum.
ANOTHER WITNESS: Markita Ogjová from the Czech Republic saw one of the robbers threaten visitors and order them to lie on the floor.
MASSIVE SEARCH: Oslo police have launched a major investigation into the robbery, and were tracking leads on Monday.David Toska, reportedly the mastermind of the robbery of the Norwegian Cash Service (NOKAS) offices in downtown Stavanger, was arrested on April 5, the first anniversary of the crime.
The robbery, which was a ruthless and large-scale operation, resulted in the shooting death of police officer Arne Sigve Klungland, making it an exceptionally violent crime by Norwegian standards.
The police investigation to catch the members of the gang behind the NOKAS robbery is the biggest law-enforcement operation ever launched in Norway, and has already cost NOK 65 (USD 10.2) million, probably a bit more than the thieves made off with.
Now investigators say they cannot rule out that the robbery of Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" from the Munch Museum in Oslo on August 22 last year was part of a maneuver from the band behind the NOKAS heist. The goal would have been to tie up investigative resources by creating a spectacular art theft.
On the grounds that the members of the various criminal networks in the underworld in Oslo and eastern Norway know each other, police inspector Iver Stensrud is optimistic that more than one case may be solved by the NOKAS investigation.
"I would therefore not rule out that the arrests in the NOKAS case will lead to a positive development in the investigation of the Munch case," Stensrud told Aftenposten.
Police have biological trace evidence in the getaway car used in the Munch robbery, and have an increasing number of suspects in custody to test.
The Malaga arrest of Toska, in the company of a 28-year-old Norwegian suspected of being behind a major hashish smuggling operation, is another indicator to police that Norway's criminal circles often merge, with multi-faceted international criminals becoming the norm.
"It is interesting for us that these two were arrested together. It is relevant to raise the question of whether part of the robbery take has been used to purchase large quantities of hashish, and this is something the police will investigate closely," Stensrud said.
