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Thieves Buy Tickets Before Plundering Necklace From Vienna Museum
- Two men smashed a display case at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts on August 27 and fled on foot with a historic Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace valued at about $4 million.
- Designed for the 1939 marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the platinum piece features 673 diamonds weighing 200 carats and was assessed at up to $4.6 million in a 2015 Sotheby's auction.
- Police are tracking two slim suspects about 175cm tall with dark hair and beards; CCTV images captured both wearing black clothes and dark sneakers during the heist.
- The Museum confirmed the 'Prime Pieces' exhibition remains open 'with the exception of the affected exhibition' while police continue their manhunt for the thieves.
- This marks the highest value art theft in Vienna since the 2003 Saliera heist at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, though that piece was recovered three years later; the heist mirrors the 2025 Louvre theft of $100 million in jewels.
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Two people are suspected of stealing a million-dollar necklace.
·Borås, Sweden
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Two men bought tickets to an art museum in Vienna, smashed a glass case and made off with an exclusive diamond necklace. The theft comes as museum robberies in Europe are becoming increasingly violent, according to a recent report by Europol.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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Thieves are now attacking museums across Europe. Valuables are disappearing one after another.
·Helsinki, Finland
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