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Thieves buy tickets before plundering necklace worth millions from Vienna museum

Police said the two men did not wear masks, paid to enter the museum and were clearly seen on surveillance cameras in Thursday's heist.

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00:00Epp Van Cleef and Arpel's necklace worth several million dollars has been stolen from Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts in
00:07the latest high-profile European Museum heist.
00:10Police said two men bought tickets, entered the museum and smashed a glass display case with a hammer before fleeing
00:16with the jewelry.
00:18Apparently, they did not wear masks and did not care about being recorded as their faces could be clearly seen
00:23on security footage.
00:24The stolen necklace features 200 carats and 673 precious stones.
00:29It was designed for Egypt's former royal family and was famously worn by Queen Nazli in 1939.
00:36Beyond Vienna, the theft follows a series of major museum raids across Europe.
00:41Thieves targeted the treasure of Villena in Spain, while four works by Renaissance master Antonella da Messina were stolen from
00:48a museum in Sicily.
00:49The wave of heists follows last year's Louvre burglary in Paris, where thieves escaped with jewelry valued at around 87
00:58.6 million euros.
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01:03The yellow Т

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