VIENNA: Two men bought tickets to enter Vienna\u2019s Museum of Applied Arts before smashing a display case, grabbing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace and walking away, police said Friday.<\/p>\n
Austrian media said the Van Cleef and Arpels necklace, with 673 precious stones, was worth several million dollars. It is the latest in a series of high-profile heists to hit European museums.<\/p>\n
Police said the two men did not wear masks, paid to enter the museum and were clearly seen on surveillance cameras in Thursday\u2019s heist.<\/p>\n
They \u201csmashed a glass display case\u201d with a hammer before \u201cfleeing with the jewelry in an unknown direction,\u201d said a police statement.<\/p>\n
The museum confirmed the theft but said it would not comment while the investigation went ahead.<\/p>\n
The necklace had been part of an exhibition devoted to the French designers Van Cleef and Arpels. Some 500 pieces had been on display since June. The exhibition is scheduled to end on Sept. 27.<\/p>\n
The stolen necklace was designed for the former Egyptian royal family, and was worn by Queen Nazli in 1939 for the marriage of her daughter Faiza.<\/p>\n
On its website, Van Cleef and Arpels called the stolen piece a \u201ctriumph of white jewelry.\u201d <\/p>\n
European museums have been hit by a series of spectacular thefts since thieves in October broke into the Louvre museum in Paris in broad daylight, escaping in less than eight minutes with jewelry worth $102 million.<\/p>\n
Thieves on Thursday raided the Treasure of Villena \u2014 one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections \u2014 at a museum in the Spanish city of Villena, taking most of the 50-plus mainly gold bracelets, bowls, bottles and other items on display.<\/p>\n
Four works \u201cof extraordinary value\u201d by Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy\u2019s Culture Ministry said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Two days earlier, Italian police said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million which were stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation museum near Parma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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