En man bröt sig in i Naturhistoriska Museet tidigt på påskafton och använde sig av en motorsåg(!) för att såga av en av betarna på skelettet av en elefant. Snabelvarelsen var inte vilken som helst, utan tillhörde en gång en av Frankrikes mest kända kungar, Louis XIV, även kallad Solkungen. Elefanten fick Louis XIV i gåva 1668 av den portugisiske kungen.
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| Museianställd med lemlästad elefant |
Sedan 1950-talets population av miljoner afrikanska elefanter som minskade till runt 600.000 i slutet av 80-talet, kriminaliserades handeln med (modernt) elfenben 1989. Tjuvjakt och illegal handel med betar fortsätter dock i allra högsta grad.
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| Idiotiskt potensmedel |
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A security guard at the
Natural History museum stands in front of the elephant skeleton whose
tusk was chopped off by a thief, at the Natural History museum in Paris
on March 30, 2013. A young man was arrested by the police on the night
of 29-30 March after attempting to steal the tusks of an elephant having
belonged to Louis XIV by using a chainsaw to chop them off, according
to the Higher Education and Research Ministry. AFP PHOTO/ JOEL SAGET.
PARIS (AFP).- A man broke into the Paris natural history museum early
Saturday and used a chainsaw to hack off the tusk of an elephant that
belonged to King Louis XIV of France, officials said.
Police arrested the man in a nearby street as he was making his escape
and recovered the three-kilogram (seven-pound) tusk, museum workers
said.
The elephant whose skeleton is preserved in the popular museum was given
as a gift in 1668 by the king of Portugal to Louis XIV, who was also
known as the Sun King.
The animal's tusks are not the original ones but were added to the
skeleton in the 19th century.
Police made no immediate comment about why the man tried to steal the
tusk but the incident comes amid a series of thefts in recent years of
ivory from European museums and zoos.
The international trade in elephant ivory, with rare exceptions, has
been outlawed since 1989 after elephant populations in Africa dropped
from millions in the mid-20th century to some 600,000 by the end of the
1980s.
Yet poachers continue to slaughter elephants to lay their hands on their
precious ivory and the illegal trade in the white gold continues to
boom.
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A security guard at the
Natural History museum stands in front of the elephant skeleton whose
tusk was chopped off by a thief, at the Natural History museum in Paris
on March 30, 2013. A young man was arrested by the police on the night
of 29-30 March after attempting to steal the tusks of an elephant having
belonged to Louis XIV by using a chainsaw to chop them off, according
to the Higher Education and Research Ministry. AFP PHOTO/ JOEL SAGET.
PARIS (AFP).- A man broke into the Paris natural history museum early
Saturday and used a chainsaw to hack off the tusk of an elephant that
belonged to King Louis XIV of France, officials said.
Police arrested the man in a nearby street as he was making his escape
and recovered the three-kilogram (seven-pound) tusk, museum workers
said.
The elephant whose skeleton is preserved in the popular museum was given
as a gift in 1668 by the king of Portugal to Louis XIV, who was also
known as the Sun King.
The animal's tusks are not the original ones but were added to the
skeleton in the 19th century.
Police made no immediate comment about why the man tried to steal the
tusk but the incident comes amid a series of thefts in recent years of
ivory from European museums and zoos.
The international trade in elephant ivory, with rare exceptions, has
been outlawed since 1989 after elephant populations in Africa dropped
from millions in the mid-20th century to some 600,000 by the end of the
1980s.
Yet poachers continue to slaughter elephants to lay their hands on their
precious ivory and the illegal trade in the white gold continues to
boom.
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