[CPProt.net] Another valuable art theft in The Netherlands

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Less than one week after the major art theft at the Westfries Museum in
Hoorn, The Netherlands (read information and see photographs at:
http://www.museum-security.org )there has been another art heist. This time
a church in Blitterswijck has been victimized. All valuable 15th to 18th
century statues and paintings have been stolen. An attempt to open the
church's safe was in vain. To prevent being caught red handed the burglars
put mattresses in front of the church windows. Police is convinced that a
'professional gang' is responsible for this theft. Total damage is estimated
to be tens of thousands of Euros.

This time a Netherlands church was impaired. According to French police The
Netherlands is a center of trade in stolen religious art from French
churches.
(Read about this at:
http://te.verweg.com/pipermail/cpprot/2005-January/000634.html

The past few years there have been a lot of art thefts in The Netherlands.
There have been burglaries in the Frans Hals museum in Haarlem, 6 millions
worth of diamond antique juwelen jewelry was stolen at the Museon Museum in
The Hague, and two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh museum.
Several other museums suffered daytime thefts. In the Delft Army museum
there was a very serious series of thefts by one of the curators.

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