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Egypt informed the Interpol by the theft and hopefully this will result something in the end.
The debate in Egypt now is not about where the canvas went or why we accused the Italians or exactly how the theft happened but rather about the shameful neglect in the museum. There is no doubt this theft would not have happened if there is a real alarm and security systems in the museum which contains artifacts worth than $ 1 billion. We do not follow the theft updates but rather the accusations war between Farouk Hosni and Mohsen Shalaan. Shalaan accuses Hosni of making him the scapegoat insisting that he warned the ministry for years and no one listened where as Hosni insisted that the ministry allocation LE 20,000,000 to Shalaan to upgrade this museum and God only knows where he spent this money on !!
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| Empty frame |
Now to the theft itself , well after seeing the empty frame of the painting and how careful the canvas was cut I believe it was an inside job , it was someone from inside the museum who had all that time to cut the canvas very very carefully.
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