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Post : #Greece police search #Switzerland for artefacts stolen from #Olympia museum, seemingly without success
URL : http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/greece-olympia-museum-robbery-switzerland-search/
Posted : April 2, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Author : samarkeolog
Tags : Greece, Museum of the History of the Olympic Games, Olympia, Switzerland
Categories : cultural heritage, illicit antiquities trade, looting

A week ago, it was reported that Greek police were searching Switzerland for artefacts stolen from the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games.

Apparently, 'information indicate[d] that many of the stolen items [πληροφορία αναφέρει πως πολλά από τα κλεμμένα αντικείμενα]' were in Switzerland, allegedly 'contradicting police assessments that the theft was an amateur [διαψεύδοντας τις εκτιμήσεις των αστυνομικών ( http://news247.gr/ellada/eidiseis/sthn_elvetia_oi_ereynes_gia_thn_kloph_sthn_arxaia_olympia.1707492.html ) , ότι η κλοπή ήταν ερασιτεχνική]'; but they still haven't caught any of the criminals or recovered any of the artefacts.

Switzerland is a key point in the global illicit antiquities trade, so it is a plausible destination for the stolen goods (or, more likely, a point of exchange in a longer journey to Britain, Germany, the U.S. or elsewhere).

However, more than six weeks have passed since the armed robbery of the museum in Olympia. Six weeks would suffice for an amateur to find a dealer capable of helping; or for the artefacts to pass through several pairs of hands, up the line from an opportunistic thief to an organised criminal network.

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