Culture

Louvre hosts exhibition on works stolen in Syria and Libya

Paris, May 28 (EFE). - (Camera: Mario García Sánchez) The Louvre museum hosts for the first time an exhibition on works of art seized at different custom points in France that were stolen in Syria and Libya taking advantage of the chaos of armed conflicts in the region to introduce them into the illegal art market.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE LOUVRE MUSEUM.SOUNDBITES OF UDOVIC LAUGIER, CURATOR IN THE MUSEUM'S DEPARTMENT OF GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ANTIQUES.Translation:1.- “It is the first time, and it is in the Louvre where we present works while an investigating judge is working on the case. There are stamps that we had to anonymize to protect the correct result of the investigation."2.- “For traffickers, it is easy to traffic in countries at war because there is no surveillance. Populations solve other more serious problems such as survival."3-. "There are many works that can be found for sale on the Internet, simply. Not necessarily works of this quality, but many works that are also regularly looted in France."4.- "If the general public knows it, they will not buy. When demand decreases, traffic networks break (...). This is very important."5.- "When the legal procedures are finished, of course, the objective is to send them back to Libya so that they can be visited in the Cyrene museum."