2024-07-20 09:55:14
Against him art theft, The International Police, better known as Interpolrecovered more than 6 thousand artistic pieces in a big operation rescue.
This mass recovery It took place in various parts of Europe, in coordination with the Spanish Civil Guard and Europol; in addition, they already add up 85 people arrested for him art theft.
In total, they achieved recover 6,400 pieces of art as a result of the mass robberies that have been recorded in the old continent.
Interpol recovers 6,400 pieces after massive art theft
The Interpolthe Spanish Civil Guard and Europol launched a big operation to combat the art theft in Europe.
This is Operation ‘Pandora’, which has been carried out eight times since 2016 and this last one was carried out from November 28 to December 2, 2023, in up to 25 countries:
- Albania
- Austria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Croatia
- Chipre
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italia
- Latvia
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Rumania
- Spain
- Serbia
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
For this purpose, police forces were deployed mainly in airports, customs, ports, borders, museums, auction houses and in some private residences; but online channels were also monitored.
As a result, they achieved recover 6,400 pieces of artvalued in millions of euros, while 85 people involved were arrested.
Art theft: These were some of the works recovered in Interpol operation
Between mass recovery up to 6,400 pieces of art, the Interpol In collaboration with local authorities, they managed to obtain 11 gold objects worth more than 60 million euros in Spain, which had been stolen in Ukraine.
On the other hand, the Spanish Civil Guard with the support of the Archaeological Museum of Seville and archaeologists from the Junta de Andalucía, recovered a private collection with 350 pieces of art, of an archaeological nature.
In Italy a drug was seized Contemporary painting sold online, valued at 150 thousand euroswhile in France, at the Paris airport, another illegally exported painting by the artist Mai Tahúr, worth 167,440 euros, was confiscated.
With information from EFE.
2024-07-20 09:55:14