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Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid
Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty. Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the M…
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The 200-carat platinum and diamond-encrusted necklace. Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty View image in fullscreen The 200-carat platinum and diamond-encrusted necklace. Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Art theft Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours
Prefer the Guardian on Google Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty.
Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), amid a rash of spectacular smash-and-grab thefts from European cultural institutions.
The unmasked men bought tickets to the exhibition before shattering a glass display case with a hammer during opening hours on Thursday afternoon and making off with the diamond necklace.
View image in fullscreen A visitor takes a picture of the platinum and diamond necklace, which dates from 1939 and belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt, at the Pierres Précieuses exhibition in Paris. Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty In an appeal for information from the public, police said: “The perpetrators fled with the jewellery in an unknown direction.”