However , further publicity that might have drawn attention to the theft and perhaps helped solve it was stymied by news events of September 5 . At that year 's Summer Olympics in Munich , Palestinian terrorists with Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage , eventually killing them along with a German police officer , the following day . Those events were of particular interest in Montreal since the city was preparing to host the next Olympics , and as a result further news about the art theft got less priority in the media . The investigation would continue , however
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1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery