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Stollen artifacts/PM Ciolacu asks justice minister to analyse contract with Dutch museum

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Romania’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu on Tuesday asked the country’s Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu, to analyse with the best experts the contract with the Drents Museum in Assen and to request „unprecedented” damages for the theft of Romanian cultural artifacts that had been on display at the museum.

„I am outraged that priceless objects from Romania’s treasury were stollen from a museum in the Netherlands where there were no security officers! I am firmly convinced that we cannot accept that. If that had happened in Romania, we would all be in ruins, Romanians and Romania and the Romanian state. I ask the minister of justice to analyse with the best experts the contract with the Dutch museum and to ask for unprecedented damages,” Ciolacu said at the Government House at the beginning of a government meeting.

He said that he sent a firm message to the Dutch authorities, in which he stressed that it is „vital” that the investigation leads to the arrest of the thieves and the full recovery of the Dacian treasures.

„The Dutch state bears full responsibility for this situation. We want and we can help with Romanian investigators, Minister Predoiu is already ready,” said Ciolacu.

AGERPRES

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