The burglaries took the gold toilet bowl from Churchill’s birthplace-now received a judgment

In the morning On September 14, 2019, five burglaries made a five-minute stroke for toilet facilities in the English Blenheim Palace near Oxford.

During that time, they drove through the wooden gate by trucks and cars, broke the palace window and entered, removed a full-gold toilet seat, rolling it to the trunk of the car and drove.

Golden The toilet seat was an Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelanin teos Americawhich was on loan from the collections of the New York Guggenheim Museum.

Blenheim Palace was built in the early 18th century on the Duke of Marlborough John Churchillilleand it is the British War Prime Minister Winston Churchillin Birthplace.

Stolen The toilet seat has not been seen since 2019, but on Tuesday, March 18, the London court issued judgments to two men.

One of them was convicted of burglary and the other for hiding stolen goods. The third man whose DNA was found in a window -used Leka had previously acknowledged his guilt in the hiding crime, while the fourth charges were abandoned. For example, Reuters and Reuters and New York Times.

The sentences of the convicted will be imposed later.

America-teos There was an 18 carat gold and fully functional toilet seat, which could also be used by guests of exhibitions in both Guggenheim and Blenheim. It weighed $ 98 kilograms and was insured for $ six million, or about $ 5.5 million.

According to the prosecutors, the toilet seat has been broken into smaller pieces and sold forward.

The artist Maurizio Cattelan has recently been featured too ComedianThanks to its work, it was sold last fall for $ 6.2 million, or about $ 5.7 million. The work consists of banana and air conditioning tape, which allows you to attach the fruit to the wall.