Police are looking for a gang of criminals who stole a Romanian nationwide treasure from a Dutch museum
Thieves have blasted open a museum within the Dutch metropolis of Assen and escaped with a set of millennia-old Romanian gold and silver artifacts. The housebreaking is the most recent in a collection of artwork heists to hit the Netherlands.
Police obtained stories of an explosion on the Drenths Museum within the early hours of Saturday morning. Officers arrived on the scene and found that “a number of archaeological masterpieces” had been taken. In a press release on Monday, police stated that they consider a number of suspects have been concerned, and that Interpol is participating within the investigation.
The thieves made off with the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a 2,400-year-old murals thought-about a nationwide treasure in Romania, and three golden bracelets relationship from round 50BC.
The gadgets have been a part of the ‘Dacia: Wealthy in gold and silver’ exhibition, which was in its closing weekend. The helmet, bracelets, and tons of of different gold and silver objects have been on mortgage to the Drenths Museum from greater than a dozen museums in Romania.
The Dacians have been an historic Indo-European individuals who inhabited a big swathe of modern-day Romania from the Bronze Age till their conquest by the Romans within the Second Century AD. Sitting on an vital commerce crossroads, their artwork was influenced by the Greeks, Celts, Thracians, Scythians and Persians.
“It is a black day for the Drents Museum in Assen and the Nationwide Historical past Museum of Romania in Bucharest,” the Drents Museum’s director, Harry Tupan, stated in a press release. “In [the museum’s] 170-year existence, such a significant incident has by no means occurred. It additionally causes us nice unhappiness in direction of our colleagues in Romania.”
In a Fb publish on Sunday, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stated that he was organizing a “disaster crew on the authorities degree” to work towards discovering the stolen treasures. Ciolacu stated that Romanian regulation enforcement officers would work with Dutch police to trace down the stolen items, whereas Romanian specialists could be dispatched to the Netherlands to “make sure the fast return” of the remainder of the gathering.
The theft got here two months after thieves blasted their approach right into a gallery within the city of Oisterwijk and stole 4 Andy Warhol prints. Related thefts befell at an artwork honest in Maastricht in 2022 and at a museum in Laren in 2020, the place Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Parsonage Backyard’ was stolen. The Van Gogh portray was recovered three years later and is at the moment on show in Groningen.
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