{"id":96375,"date":"2026-08-28T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/men-buy-tickets-to-enter-museum-before-stealing-200-carat-platinum-and-diamond-necklace-vienna-police-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:46:15","slug":"men-buy-tickets-to-enter-museum-before-stealing-200-carat-platinum-and-diamond-necklace-vienna-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/men-buy-tickets-to-enter-museum-before-stealing-200-carat-platinum-and-diamond-necklace-vienna-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Men buy tickets to enter museum before stealing 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace, Vienna police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Two men bought tickets to enter Vienna&#8217;s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) before smashing a display case, grabbing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace and walking away, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p> Austrian media said the Van Cleef and Arpels necklace, with 673 precious stones, was worth several million dollars. It is the latest in a series of high-profile heists to hit European museums.<\/p>\n<p> Police said the two men did not wear masks, paid to enter the museum and were clearly seen on surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p> They &#8220;smashed a glass display case&#8221; with a hammer before &#8220;fleeing with the jewelry in an unknown direction,&#8221; said a police statement.<\/p>\n<p> The MAK museum confirmed the theft but said it would not comment while the investigation went ahead.<\/p>\n<p> The necklace had been part of an exhibition devoted to the French designers Van Cleef and Arpels. Some 500 pieces had been on display since June. The exhibition was to end on September 27 but has been closed following the theft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/28\/09dd26f2-5851-40ac-9ffa-0c95d52878a3\/thumbnail\/620x465g8\/295de95f7fc4ead130db3f6b1bf28e2f\/gettyimages-2291737202.jpg#\" alt=\"Theft at a Vienna Jewelry Exhibition \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/28\/09dd26f2-5851-40ac-9ffa-0c95d52878a3\/thumbnail\/620x465g8\/295de95f7fc4ead130db3f6b1bf28e2f\/gettyimages-2291737202.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/28\/09dd26f2-5851-40ac-9ffa-0c95d52878a3\/thumbnail\/1240x930g8\/8a1ecc467eb9b412a5107f4a285b519b\/gettyimages-2291737202.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A police officer leaves the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Austria, where thieves struck during a jewelry exhibition on August 27, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Albert Otti\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> It was designed for the former Egyptian royal family, and was worn by Queen Nazli in 1939 for the marriage of her daughter Faiza to the future Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.<\/p>\n<p> On its website, Van Cleef and Arpels called the stolen piece a &#8220;triumph of white jewelry.&#8221; The French company did not immediately comment on the theft.<\/p>\n<p> European museums have been hit by a series of spectacular thefts since thieves in October <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/thieves-broke-into-louvre-museum-paris-stolen-jewelry\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">broke into the Louvre<\/a><\/span> museum in Paris in broad daylight, escaping in less than eight minutes with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/stolen-louvre-jewels-estimated-value-prosecutor\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">jewelry worth $102 million<\/a><\/span>. The suspected thieves have been\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louvre-france-crown-jewels-heist-arrest\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested and charged<\/a><\/span>, but none of the jewels\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louvre-robbery-stolen-jewels-jeweler-paris-france\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">have been recovered<\/a><\/span>\u00a0except for a crown that was dropped as the group escaped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Thieves on Thursday <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gold-treasures-stolen-villena-museum-spain\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">raided the Treasure of Villena<\/a><\/span> &#8212; one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections &#8212; at a museum in the Spanish city of Villena, taking most of the 50-plus mainly gold bracelets, bowls, bottles and other items on display.<\/p>\n<p> Four works &#8220;of extraordinary value&#8221; by Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy&#8217;s culture ministry said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> Two days earlier, Italian police said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million that were\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/renior-cezanne-matisse-paintings-italy-parma-recovered\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">stolen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation museum near Parma. The artworks were stolen in\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/paintings-renoir-cezanne-matisse-stolen-italy-museum-under-3-minutes\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">less than three minutes<\/a><\/span>, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last month,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jewelry-stolen-lalique-museum-france\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">burglars stole<\/a><\/span>\u00a0millions of dollars worth of jewelry from the museum of French luxury glassmaker Lalique in a daring early morning raid.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, a woman was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/woman-arrested-gold-theft-paris-natural-history-museum\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and charged over the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gold-stolen-from-paris-natural-history-museum\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">theft 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