Men Buy Tickets, Smash Case, and Steal Royal Egyptian Diamond Necklace From Vienna Museum

Men Buy Tickets, Smash Case, and Steal Royal Egyptian Diamond Necklace From Vienna Museum

Two men bought tickets to a Vienna MAK exhibition, shattered a display case with a hammer in front of witnesses, and fled with a 200-carat diamond necklace once worn by Queen Consort Nazli of Egypt at her daughter's 1939 wedding. The piece sold at Sotheby's in 2015 for $4.3 million. No one was injured. Police released surveillance images; Austrian media report investigators suspect a contracted gang job. The Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition is temporarily closed.

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