A heist carried out by a professional gang that specialize in art raids across Europe have targeted Ireland’s National Museum in Dublin and got away with eight extremely valuable and rare rhino horns, valued at (EURO) 500,000 on the black market.
The masked men stole stuffed rhinoceros heads containing the eight valuable horns from the museum’s warehouse, tying up the lone security guard. He later freed himself and raised the alarm.
The four heads – three of black rhinos from Kenya, one of the virtually extinct white rhino from Sudan, all killed more than a century ago – were removed from public display last year and put into storage specifically to safeguard them from thieves.
Irish Police are now investigating the thefts along with Interpol, who believe that this is the work of a single gang who are known to be operating across Europe.
