WHAT A RELIEF: Bronze Artworks Worth Over EUR 1m Saved From Being Recycled After Clueless Thieves Sold Them As Scrap

The five bronze reliefs that were stolen from a studio site in the second municipal district Leopoldstadt in the Austrian capital Vienna. Note: Licensed photo. (Landespolizeidirektion Wien/Newsflash) The five bronze reliefs that were stolen from a studio site in the second municipal district Leopoldstadt in the Austrian capital Vienna. Note: Licensed photo. (Landespolizeidirektion Wien/Newsflash)
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13 June 2022
Police say that five bronze reliefs and two bronze sculptures worth over EUR 1 million were saved from being melted down in a furnace after clueless thieves sold them as scrap metal. Vienna police (Landespolizeidirektion Wien) said that investigators had "succeeded in arresting two Romanian...