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Egypt informed the Interpol by the theft and hopefully this will result something in the end.
The debate in Egypt now is not about where the canvas went or why we accused the Italians or exactly how the theft happened but rather about the shameful neglect in the museum. There is no doubt this theft would not have happened if there is a real alarm and security systems in the museum which contains artifacts worth than $ 1 billion. We do not follow the theft updates but rather the accusations war between Farouk Hosni and Mohsen Shalaan. Shalaan accuses Hosni of making him the scapegoat insisting that he warned the ministry for years and no one listened where as Hosni insisted that the ministry allocation LE 20,000,000 to Shalaan to upgrade this museum and God only knows where he spent this money on !!
Empty frame |
Now to the theft itself , well after seeing the empty frame of the painting and how careful the canvas was cut I believe it was an inside job , it was someone from inside the museum who had all that time to cut the canvas very very carefully.
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great as usual Z .I shared it on FB
ReplyDeleteThanks ya Nour :)
ReplyDeleteZeinobia, I think Sawiris offered this to urge anyone from the staff to tell about what happen because - like you - it seems for mne too as an inside job or at least someone help the access of other international gangsters to get this painting because who would ever known that security measures as this weak!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if investigations shall tell the truth about stealing this masterpiece.
Anyway, I hope they don't say at last it was the fault of (El-Mass El-Kahraba2i) as they do because el-kahraba ma2too3a regulary as us know
- Ramadan Kareem for you.
I just wonder if we couldn't secure an art museum, how we are going to secure a nuclear power plant. Anybody knows the answer?
ReplyDelete@Hazem: My thoughts and fears exactly.
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