Two German football fans tried to steal from a Museum painting by Emil Nolde
This story seemed to be a farce, if it had not been actually in the middle of July in the city of Nuremberg. Two students, 23 and 24 years in a state of considerable podpity in connection with the victory of the German team at the world Cup, decided to steal a picture from the German national musea@
night, when the whole country was celebrating the victory of the German team by more traditional methods, two students from the southern German city of Erlangen climbed on the roof of the Nuremberg Museum, using scaffolding and found immediately stairs. Then they broke in through the Dormer window, and, lighting his way with flashlights in mobile phones, reached the paintings of German expressionist Emil Nolde "the Knight and the lady" 1910. They knew or not that the cost of painting reaches 900 thousand euros, but it is their and summed up: the painting was installed silent alarm, which fans are activated when removing the blade from the wall. The police reacted instantly, and would-be thieves took the act at the exit of the Museum. At the time of arrest, the alcohol content in the blood of the students reached 0,1 процента.
In the following months spent under arrest awaiting trial, the students had plenty of time to repent of the crime. They swore that all the fault was General euphoria of victory and drunk vodka and that the next day they would have returned the painting to the Museum, even if they managed it from there to endure. It's not they would be hanged in her room in the hostel. The hearing took place yesterday. The Prosecutor insisted on the real period of up to three years for both students as to climb at night in the Museum is one (it can still go just for drunken adventure), but to try to steal the painting from the Museum is quite another. However, the most gracious, the judge entered the position of the defendants, sincerely regretful of his actions, and gave them suspended sentences in 1 year and 9 months and 1 year and 3 masaza@
Источники: artnet.com, spiegel.de, artinvestment.ru
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