{"id":44108,"date":"2010-08-23T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/23\/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-cairo-museum-still-missing\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:31:00","slug":"van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-cairo-museum-still-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/23\/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-cairo-museum-still-missing.html","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh Painting Stolen from Cairo Museum, Still Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\">A Van Gogh painting valued by some experts at $50 million was stolen from a Cairo museum on Saturday, Egypt\u2019s minister of culture announced, reports The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian law enforcement officials blamed lax security at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum for the incident, saying that none of its alarms and only a few of its surveillance cameras were working when the painting known as \u201cPoppy Flowers\u201d and \u201cVase and Flowers&#8221; (a depiction of a vase filled with yellow poppies, was sliced from its frame and taken).<\/p>\n<p>Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced shortly after the disappearance of the painting was made public that it had been recovered at the Cairo airport and that two Italians had been arrested in connection with theft. <\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Hosni said later that he had been given bad information and that the search continued. Egypt\u2019s top prosecutor, Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, told the BBC that the museum\u2019s security system was nothing more than a \u201cfacade.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said museum officials had been looking for spare parts to mend the system but \u201chadn\u2019t managed to find them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[14142,14143,14144,14141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}