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Bristol Police Release CCTV of Four Suspects in Theft of 600 British Empire Collection Items

City officials call the loss culturally significant for Bristol’s dispersed Empire collection.

Im Südwesten Englands sind aus einem Museum mehr als 600 Objekte einer Sammlung zu den Verbindungen zwischen Großbritannien und den Ländern des ehemaligen British Empire gestohlen worden.
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Overview

  • Avon and Somerset Police on Thursday published surveillance images showing four men outside a Bristol building where parts of the collection were housed.
  • Investigators say the break-in occurred on 25 September between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
  • More than 600 items were taken, including jewellery, military medals, badges, carved ivory, silver pieces, bronze figures and geological samples.
  • Detective Dan Burgan described a severe loss for the city and appealed for public information, with no arrests or recoveries reported.
  • The collection was dispersed after the museum closed in 2012 and is held across five city institutions and the archives, a setup drawing comparisons to wider security concerns highlighted by the British Museum’s 2023 theft case.