Three Germans are held over death of a luthier
NewsPolice in Paraguay have arrested three German expatriates in connection with the torture and murder of Bernard von Bredow, a German palaeontologist and his 14-year-old daughter, Loreena.
Bredow curated a valuable collection of 18th century musical instruments, which attracted criminal attention.
Four Stradivarius violins were found in the home of Volker Grannas, 58, a German who lived nearby.
Now we know where the Strads for German star violists come from.
It’s a kind of arms trade.
That would be violinist. A violist is something else.
“That would be violinist. A violist is something else.”
But violists don’t know that!
I show myself out.
Totally worth it. 😀
Very tragic
Accidents are tragic. This was deliberate.
I’ll never understand people. Just appalling.
There were 4 strads just sitting in some shop in Paraguay?
Yeah, how do you just get four Stradavari in Paraguay? Sounds like he has a sleazy history as well. And *why* Paraguay?
“I wonder why so many krauts went to South America…”
Good weather and far away from Tommies, maybe.
the proper correspinsing term for krauts would be limeys. Both derivations from the substance their respective navies used to prevent scurvy.
Bernard von Bredow, not Bedow.
The sour kraut?
I can see a Netflix series on this – exotic local, history, deadly crime, music, bilingual (Spanish and German) cast, etc.
Four???
I’m going to guess that those are not accurate attributions.
the government liked them.
especially the war criminals
Horrifying. But isn’t the word “luthier” in the headline misused? I glean that this was more a collector than a maker/repairman.
what is the attraction for Germans to live
in paraguay