Thieves steal Rodin sculpture in Denmark


This handout picture grabbed from surveillance camera footage and released by the Copenhagen Police on August 20, 2015 shows two men who are suspected to be the robbers of a bronze bust of French sculptor Auguste Rodin at the Carlsberg Glyptotek. - AFP PHOTO / HO / SCANPIX DENMARK/ KOEBENHAVNS POLITI

COPENHAGEN, Aug 21, 2015 (AFP) - Two robbers have made off with a bronze bust by French sculptor Auguste Rodin from a Copenhagen museum in a bold theft in broad daylight, the museum said Friday.

"So far we have no indications of where it has gone and police investigations are ongoing," a spokesman at the Glyptoteket museum, Jakob Fibiger Andreasen, said.

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