
Vienna museum smash-and-grab steals 200-carat necklace linked to Egyptian royalty
Austrian police are hunting two men who smashed a display case at Vienna’s MAK museum and stole a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that had been loaned from a Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition and once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt; the heist occurred during opening hours with no injuries reported, and the necklace—dating to 1939 and previously sold for $4.3 million at Sotheby’s—is part of a broader surge in violent European art thefts.











