From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history
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Twelve days after the theft of Villena’s treasure, Ernest Urtasun still does not give explanations about the loss of one of the most valuable vestiges of the Bronze Age in the Iberian Peninsula. The minister has given time to travel to the Bienal del Libro de São Paulo, to record videos in his Instagram office and even to grant an interview on television. However, he has not found a minute to clarify what his department did this summer to streng…
How 90 seconds were enough to avoid the 'weak' security system of the Villena Museum and to subtract one of the greatest treasures of the Bronze Age valued at 1.7 million euros. More information: Villena creates a commission of inquiry after the theft of the Treasury to analyze the security failures of the museum
From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history
The spectacular rise in the price of gold over the past nine years has triggered a wave of increasingly violent heists at European museums, which are struggling to protect themselves
Villena, surrendered to her Morenica stripped of her Crown of Coronation. The Moors and Christians this Monday have entertained the patroness, the Virgin of the Virtues, with a multitude of Offerings on the third day of the celebrations. An act in which, as in her pilgrimage last August 30, La Morenica has not counted on her special crowns, since the Imperial, employed in the pilgrimage, and the Coronation, which is used in the Moors and Christi…
This summer, almost ten burglaries took place in French and European museums. Jewellery, antique coins, archaeological pieces: the most precious objects have now become privileged targets. Despite this, how can we continue to show these works to the public?
The police investigate the theft of Villena’s Treasure and fear that the spoliated gold has already been melted. The case reopens the debate on the security of the heritage. The entrance to Villena’s Treasure Rob: the police fear that the spoliated gold is already melted was first published in What!.
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