Just in: Dutch Police arrest suspects with 1731 violin

Just in: Dutch Police arrest suspects with 1731 violin

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norman lebrecht

January 23, 2014

Two men walked into a luthier’s shop in The Hague today, offering to sell a violin. The luthier called police, who arrested them with a 1731 Landolfi, stolen a week ago in a burglary at Abcoude. The instrument is worth several hundred thousand dollars. Two men are being detained for questioning.

violin thief

violin police

Comments

  • Michael Schaffer says:

    Wow, they still have teletext (or “teletekst”) in the Netherlands?!? I remember that from the 80s…

  • A lot of other countries still have Teletext 🙂

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