BBC News: Scream stolen from Norway museum
Having previously been stolen about 10 years ago you’d think that the Munch Museum would have improved security to prevent another theft of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream.
| A French radio producer who was in the museum at the time of the theft said security was not very tight.
“What’s strange is that in this museum, there weren’t any means of protection for the paintings, no alarm bell,” Francois Castang told France Inter radio, the Associated Press reported. “The paintings were simply attached by wire to the walls,” he said. “All you had to do is pull on the painting hard for the cord to break loose – which is what I saw one of the thieves doing.” Ms Christofferson said the guards were more concerned with protecting visitors than the paintings. |
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