Etiket: looted
Flemish student Max (22) testifies about the riots in Lyon: “I saw how a father and his child looted ten piles of clothes”
“It was hallucinatory.” Max Van Mechelen (22) still sounds affected when we speak to him. The Antwerp student, who lives in Lyon for his studies, was sitting on a terrace…
Nigeria’s president thwarts looted art return deals by donating the Benin bronzes to a private person: the Benin king
With one foot already out the door, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a decree that could potentially affect the return of thousands of stolen works of art by Western…
Atelier goldsmith beaten to rubble and looted: ‘It hurts’
Goldsmith Kirsten de Bruijn has been clearing the rubble all day long. In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, two burglars smashed and robbed all the display cases in her…
Pelosi looted in Democratische meerderheid in Huis VS: “We hebben nog steeds een kans om te winnen” | Buitenland
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic vote in the House of Afgevaardigden, is still a long way from the hair part of the sea in the House. “We think nog steeds dat…
The Palau de la Música recovers half of the funds looted by Millet
The cultural entity and the Orferò Català have rescued 12 of the 23 million euros diverted by its former president and by his former right-hand man, Jordi Montull The Palau…
Indonesia requests a large number of looted goods back from the Netherlands, including remains of the famous Java man
A reconstruction of the Javanese man based on the skull cap found by Eugène Dubois, in the Naturalis museum in Leiden.Statue Freek van den Bergh / de Volkskrant It is…
Return of Dutch colonial looted art will take years | Politics
The intended Dutch return of colonial looted art is proceeding at a slow pace. More than a year and a half after the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)…
Return of Dutch colonial looted art will take years
The intended Dutch return of colonial looted art is proceeding at a slow pace. More than a year and a half after the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)…
Graves at Nijmegen cemetery looted again | Inland
It hit the Jonkerbos cemetery again on Sunday, much to the frustration of relatives. Despite additional security measures taken after last June’s thefts. Then graves were also looted. “But that…
‘Theft of the century’: 20 containers of gold and silver looted in Mexico
At least ten heavily armed robbers robbed at least twenty containers of gold and silver from a private company near the port of the Mexican city of Manzanillo. They overpowered…