Drents Museum director talks on the Dacian artifacts heist
The director of the Dutch museum in Assen, from where the Coțofenești helmet and the Dacian bracelets were stolen, claims to have taken all necessary security measures and states that the Netherlands is also a victim of the theft.
Director Harry Tupan says the Drents Museum complied with security requirements, as contractually agreed with the insurer. “Of course, we always fulfill our obligations,” he said on Tuesday evening on the “Renze” show, according to nltimes.nl.
He did not comment on the insurer’s conditions. “But all the measures are included in that contract.” Asked if a guard should have been present at night, the museum director replied that there were other provisions that would ensure an alarm “faster than a guard.”
Also, a guard would have been in danger if he had been present at the time of the explosion and the theft. Tupan stressed again that the incident is “incredibly painful and sad.”
According to him, Romania’s anger is “completely understandable” and he was not surprised. But, he added, “we are victims too.” A theft like this from his museum “transcends the museum,” Tupan said. “There is a new order. As institutions, we will have to do something about this”.
The Minister of Culture, Natalia Intotero (PSD), announced on Tuesday the dismissal of Ernest Oberlander-Târnoveanu, the director of the National Museum of History, after he refused to resign.
The thieves also used a van
The police did not specify in the NPO program whether the suspects in North Holland are the men caught on camera at the museum. They said they found a second hammer belonging to the perpetrators in the water near the museum and have indications that, in addition to a stolen dark gray Volkswagen, the perpetrators also used a van in their action. It is a dark-colored Ford Transit. The police do not yet know where the Golf was in the 48 hours between the theft and the burglary.
The car was stolen on the night of Wednesday to Thursday in Alkmaar, North Holland. It was then seen at 4:20 AM on Julianaplein in Groningen, with license plates that had also been stolen that night on Van Aylvaweg in Witmarsum, Friesland province.
After the theft, the car was found burned under a viaduct near Rolde, Drenthe province.
Thieves stole a gold helmet and three gold bracelets on loan from a museum in Romania during the robbery on Friday night into Saturday. Police report that a large-scale investigation has been launched and that, in addition to technical and tactical searches at the museum, investigations were also carried out in Alkmaar, Witmarsum, Groningen, Assen and Rolde.
Prosecutors Seize Documents in Bucharest in Stolen Dacian Treasure Case
Prosecutors of the General Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday seized documents from the Bucharest Municipality’s Culture Department in the case of the theft of gold objects from the Dacian treasure exhibited in the Netherlands.
The Bucharest Municipality’s Culture Department, subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, is the institution that issues an opinion on heritage objects that are sent abroad for exhibitions, according to Digi24. The Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ) announced on Saturday that a criminal case had been drawn up ex officio in the case of the theft of pieces from the Dacian treasure exhibited at the Drents Museum, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
“Following the analysis of the factual situation, a criminal case was drawn up ex officio, in terms of committing the crimes of aggravated theft and failure to comply with the regime of weapons, ammunition and explosive materials,” prosecutors say in a statement.
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Mr. Tupan’s answers are very convenient and we must feel pity for him also being a Victim in this case. The only Victim I can see is our eyesight aesthetics from his hilarious haircut. RESIGN malaka.