Security system failed during Drents Museum gold theft, says Romanian curator

A house and a business premises in Heerhugowaard, the town where the suspects in the Drents Museum robbery in Assen were arrested, were searched on Wednesday as part of the investigation into the theft of the Helmet of…

The police searched buildings in Heerhugowaard on Wednesday morning in the investigation into the theft of the Romanian gold treasures from the Drents Museum in January. Various goods were seized and at the same time a search was made for the stolen golden helmet and bracelets. These were not found.

The golden helmet from Coțofenești, stolen from the museum in the Netherlands, was allegedly damaged during the robbery. The evidence is the images from the surveillance cameras obtained by the investigators, which show how the thieves allegedly threw it on the escape route. The article New revelations in the case of the theft of the golden helmet from Coțofenești. The Dacian treasure was allegedly damaged during the robbery from the museum in t…

New information is emerging in the case of the major robbery at the museum in the Netherlands. According to images captured by surveillance cameras, the thieves allegedly threw the golden helmet onto the escape route, which raises suspicions that the treasure could be damaged. The museum director told a Dutch publication that the suspects tried to steal a second golden helmet, but they were unable to remove it from the display case. He also stre…

A home and business premises in Heerhugowaard were searched on Wednesday morning in the investigation into the art robbery from the Drents Museum. The stolen gold helmet and bracelets were not found during the search, reports a police spokesperson.

Security system failed during Drents Museum gold theft, says Romanian curator

The security system at the Drents Museum failed to function properly during the theft of a golden helmet and three golden bracelets from the Dacia exhibition, according to Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu, former director of the National History Museum in Bucharest.