Rome - Stolen art shows cops’ skills
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Italy’s cultural police, who have taken a leading role in the fight against the smuggling of antiquities, put on show a trove of recovered stolen art in Rome from Etruscan funerary urns to Renaissance paintings.
Dozens of works are being displayed in the presidential palace in the Italian capital in a special exhibition also intended to show off a police force called in to consult on art thefts around the world. The force said it has the largest database of stolen works around the world — with around 5.7 million objects — and is planning to travel to Libya, Iraq and Syria in the coming months to investigate cases.
“The turnover from the illegal trade in art is fourth in the world after arms, drugs and financial products,” said Mariano Mossa, head of the cultural police force.
Italy was the first country to equip itself with a special department to investigate art thefts in 1969 and its headquarters is in a Baroque palace in the center of Rome that crowds of tourists pass every day.
The exhibition entitled “Memory Regained: Treasures recovered by the Carabinieri,” at the Quirinale palace, runs until March 16.
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