At around 11:30am on Tuesday, June 28, four armed thieves used a sledgehammer to break a display case and ran off with jewelry at The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) art fair in the Dutch city of Maastricht, Netherlands. Marian Bies-de Wolf, who was soon interviewed on the phone, was on shift when four male thieves headed toward a display case in the hallway.
This was strange, since no one zoomed around in the corridors before at any of the annual fairs.
After the burglars reached their destination, they soon started crumbling the glass protection of some jewelers from the London jewelry dealer, Symbolic & Chase. Bystanders could not tell what they were after, and no one stayed any longer after news spread that they had a gun. Luckily, TEFAF informed everyone that nobody was injured.
Hours following the break in, the stolen jewelry remained blurry. Two Belgians suspected and arrested. The rest of the search for people related to the robbery is still present.
Investigators and other people part of the search of the crime will not give any further information of who was caught, and the stolen jewelry being recovered. An employee from Symbolic & Chase did not accept the opportunity to have an interview and Wim Coenen, a Dutch policeman, told reporters that he could not say anything and did not give much information about the scene.
This wasn’t the first- or second time a robbery occurred at TEFAF. In 2008, rascals stole a $1.8 million diamond necklace and in 2010, a ring and necklace worth about $1.3 million disappeared from a booth owned by another London jewelry dealer, Hancocks. Hancocks didn’t respond to an offer for an interview on the day of the robbery.
Link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/28/tefaf-art-fair-heist-robbery/
This was strange, since no one zoomed around in the corridors before at any of the annual fairs.
After the burglars reached their destination, they soon started crumbling the glass protection of some jewelers from the London jewelry dealer, Symbolic & Chase. Bystanders could not tell what they were after, and no one stayed any longer after news spread that they had a gun. Luckily, TEFAF informed everyone that nobody was injured.
Hours following the break in, the stolen jewelry remained blurry. Two Belgians suspected and arrested. The rest of the search for people related to the robbery is still present.
Investigators and other people part of the search of the crime will not give any further information of who was caught, and the stolen jewelry being recovered. An employee from Symbolic & Chase did not accept the opportunity to have an interview and Wim Coenen, a Dutch policeman, told reporters that he could not say anything and did not give much information about the scene.
This wasn’t the first- or second time a robbery occurred at TEFAF. In 2008, rascals stole a $1.8 million diamond necklace and in 2010, a ring and necklace worth about $1.3 million disappeared from a booth owned by another London jewelry dealer, Hancocks. Hancocks didn’t respond to an offer for an interview on the day of the robbery.
Link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/28/tefaf-art-fair-heist-robbery/
