Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Crime
art heist Kunsthal
burning of paintings
de Kunsthal
Romania
Rotterdam
Rotterdam Kunsthal
seven famous paintings
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 04:48
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Romania Ashamed By Art Heist

Romanians are ashamed of the Kunsthal Art Heist. “Our country is disgraced in the world by culture barbarians.” And: “This will have implications for the accession of Romania to the Schengen countries.” With this Romanian media headlines characterize the effects of the robbery of seven masterpieces from museum the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in October of last year. On Tuesday the perpetrators of the 'art heist of the century' will show up for the first time in court in the Romanian capital Bucharest. One of the six suspects is still on the run. The five suspects will be charged for burglary, theft and with complicity thereto. The mother of one of the suspects is being held responsible for hiding the artwork. Earlier the mother confessed to have burned the seven paintings in her home in eastern Romania, but later she withdrew that confession again. When the court conclusively thinks it is proven that the seven paintings were burned by her, she can expect a prison sentence of around 20 years. The lawyers of the defendants have every confidence that the art work will appear, so let they know last week. If the art work really shows up intact, then that’s the only thing that perhaps may change the feeling of the Romanians that their country is disgraced by the suspects. But the general idea is that the three burglars and robbers had no idea what they had stolen. They wanted to sell the stolen paintings for 50,000 euro while they were worth 10 million. Since they couldn’t sell it they just burned the ‘proof’.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • 7 million people could lose drinking water as climate change hits Maas river: Report
  • Physicians think next Covid wave will catch Cabinet off-guard; Too little urgency
  • Addiction institute warns against life-threatening MDMA liquid
  • Mayors to arrange extra asylum shelter as long as Cabinet keeps its promises
  • Travel industry workers could fill staffing gaps at Schiphol this summer
  • Convicted crime boss Willem Holleeder sent to prison for life on appeal

Top stories

  • Consumer spending pushed Dutch economic growth in first quarter
  • Hope of EU membership big support for Ukraine, Dutch PM says
  • Transavia summer flight cancellations breaking EU rules: Consumers Assoc.
  • KLM: Most passengers with summer bookings will not face Schiphol cancellations
  • Waiting lists pushing trans teens to buy transition medicines online
  • Covid vaccines not linked to excess mortality, says Dutch stats office

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content