Sunday, August 22, 2010

Mahmoud Khalil's museum Statue of Cupid smashed

It seems that there is a curse in the Mahmoud Khalil’s museum because today a historical statue for Cupid at the garden was smashed in to pieces right after the visit of the public persecutor Abdel Magid Mahmoud !!
This happened in less than 24 hours of the Van Gogh’s painting theft !!
Broken Cupid (Youm7)
This Cupid statue’s value was estimated by millions too considering its history !! Already I do not know what it was doing at the garden when it was supposed to be inside according to those who working at the museum.
Mahmoud at the museum (Getty)
Abdel Magid Mahmoud , the public persecutor visited the museum today and he found out the 27 cameras and alarm devices in the museum are and were all broken during the crime !!
He found out that there are 7 guards only protecting this big museum with multimillion treasures and those guards are not capable of protecting anything at all !!
Mahmoud has banned the head of the arts section Mohsen Shalaan and other 8 employees at the museum from travel till the end of the investigation. There is no doubt that those who stole it had some help from inside , the canvas was cut from inside the frame for God sake , this needs time !!
Shalaan accused minister Farouk Hosni of neglecting the museum for more than a decade and that the surveillance cameras were broken for the last 15 years.
Most people are sure that Hosni will get away from this scandal as he always does.
Updated #1
  • Here is a video shot in the museum from a year ago based on the date of its upload , this video shows the level of neglect in the museum , already I assume that this video was shot by a mobile phone without a permission from the administration !! You can watch it after the break



  • By the way Youm 7 published this video as if it were their exclusive finding with no credit to the one who filmed , in fact they re-uploaded again to their account !!!
  • During my search in Youtube I found a clip showing the museum before the theft.

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