Few people arrested over negligence at the Cairo's Museum by Zivka Deleva

Few heads have fallen on the case of the Van Gogh stolen picture from the Egypt’s Mahmoud Khalil museum. The head of the culture ministry’s fine arts section, three museum guards and one more official, due to their negligence on the case and the bad security at the museum where the master piece was stolen at day time. The painting known as “Poppy Flowers” is missing since Saturday. Interpol is participating in the investigation. No one knows whether it was on purpose or not, but people that were in charge to take care of the surveillance of the museum, though they had the money to do so, they didn’t fixed the camera system. And museum with su! ch a valuable collection hadn’t had the security system fixed in four years! It is estimated that the museum’s collection is worth hundreds of millions of dollars! This is not the first time for this canvas to be stolen. It also happened in 1977, but it was found few months later. The painting, one of the 30 floral works of the Dutch post-Impressionist master, is estimated at about 50 million dollars. As experts say, exactly this painting shows the beginning of the more colorful period in Van Gogh’s creative work. The whole case is very strange – the picture’s been stolen at daytime, it was cut from its frame. I still wonder, why didn’t the thieves take Paul Gaughin’s painting, too, that was right next to his Dutch friend. Few Spaniards that were so eager to see Van Gogh’s piece, were the first to discover that the flowers on the canvas were actually gone.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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