Federal Police recover binoculars and 17th-century oil painting stolen from Buenos Aires museum
The PFA recovered two heritage items stolen from a museum on Avenida del Libertador in Buenos Aires following a judicial operation in the neighbourhood of Flores.
Two historic pieces recovered following raid in Flores
The Argentine Federal Police recovered two objects of heritage value stolen from a museum located at Avenida del Libertador 1.902, in the City of Buenos Aires, according to a report from argentina.gob.ar. The operation was carried out at a commercial premises in the neighbourhood of Flores, with authorisation from the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 8, presided over by Dr. Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi and with the approval of the Office No. 16 of Dr. Mariana Simian.
The case had been initiated on 25 March 2022, following a complaint filed by the director of the museum, who alerted authorities to the disappearance of various cultural items. Expert examination determined that one of the openings to the antechamber of the bedroom known as "Matías Errázuriz Alvear" had been forced, from where the objects were stolen.
Among the recovered pieces is a set of binoculars with mother-of-pearl and gold inlay, identified as antique optical instruments from the late 19th or early 20th century, manufactured by a renowned French company. The second item seized is a 17th-century oil painting on canvas entitled "San José", attributed to Spanish painter Bartolomé Murillo, the theft of which had also been reported in 2022.
Agents from the Cultural Heritage Protection Department of the PFA detected that the binoculars had been offered for sale at the commercial premises in Flores in the years following the complaint, which made it possible to carry out the raid and recover both pieces.
Source: Google News AR — Crime