cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9498177
Kinda interesting that folks are stealing France’s cultural heritage. Maybe even ironic.
If works of art valued above a certain amount were automatically nationalized through eminent domain, then perhaps these sorts of thefts would happen less often. But since the fine art market is a tax shelter and money laundering scheme for the ultra-wealthy, no such system will ever exist in capitalist states. The ultra-wealthy won’t allow it.
The art market is also an insurance scam center, which might be the case here.
Will they hold them for ransom?
The article doesn’t indicate any contact from thieves seeking a ransom. I imagine they’d get more money for it on the black market than they would w a ransom anyway. With that said, French gov spends money of crazy stuff all the time so who knows?
They can’t sell famous paintings. Anyone buying them can’t show them anywhere either. It’s too hot to sell. It’s usually insurance scamming or ransoming them according to a recent article about a similar theft that just happened from some siciliain church in messina by the guardian I think, maybe reuters.
Anyone buying them can’t show them anywhere either. It’s too hot to sell.
except for their personal yachts and to their likeminded friends – something that no longer exists on social media and goes to prove that practices are more effective at curbing social media than any law could ever be.
