Theft-National Gallery: The Investigator requests an extension of the temporary detention of the perpetrator

The 6th Regular Investigator Athanasios Marneris asks the judicial council to extend the temporary detention of the 49-year-old oil painter, who completes 6 months of pre-trial detention accused of the large theft of paintings from the National Gallery in 2012.

The court clerk handling the case is asking the council’s judges to extend the pre-trial detention of the accused for stealing three high-value paintings. The 49-year-old was temporarily detained for the case last July after confessing to his act before the Investigator.

Mr. Marneris also requested to the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance, which accepted his request, the clarification with a more correct legal characterization of the act attributed to the oil painter. Thus, the 49-year-old, who allegedly claims that he stole the three paintings out of “love for Art”, is charged with the crime of conspiracy to commit conspiracy, committed and attempted things of artistic value that were in a collection exposed to public view in a public building. , over 120,000 euros against a Legal Entity under Public Law (felony). The initial charge against him did not specify that his act was directed against the NPDD and thus the sentence provided, if he was found guilty, was that of imprisonment for up to 10 years. With the clarification of the act carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office at the request of Mr. Marneris, the oil painter, if found guilty, faces a prison sentence of at least 10 years.

The accused has confessed that in 2012 he stole Picasso’s famous painting entitled “Female Head” which the artist had donated to the Greek people in 1949, Pete Montrian’s painting “The Stammer Windmill” and a drawing on paper, of his beginnings 17th century, attributed to the Italian Guglielmo Katsia (Moncalvo). The last project. According to the 49-year-old, he used it to wipe blood from a wound on his hand on the night of the theft and then threw it in his toilet bowl, believing that it had been destroyed. Two of the three stolen works found in the possession of the accused, have already returned to the National Gallery after a relevant council of the Council of Criminal Procedure appointed by the Museum as a sponsor.

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