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Two men smashed a glass case at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts, stealing a $4+ million, 673-diamond necklace on loan from Van Cleef & Arpels; the daylight theft was captured on CCTV, the suspects fled on foot toward a nearby park, no one was injured, and police with Interpol are pursuing leads as MAK reviews security following a spate of European museum robberies.
Two men entered Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) by buying tickets, smashed a display case and fled with a 200-carat platinum-and-diamond Van Cleef & Arpels necklace worth millions; they were not masked and were captured on surveillance cameras. The piece, part of a Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition with about 500 items, had been on display since June and the wing reopened shortly after the theft as investigators probe the incident.
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.