Indeed, to the Greek request for the marbles of the Parthenonnow china and nigeria request the return of pieces of heritage acquired through “inadequate channels”
A few days ago, the theft organized and sustained for years of key pieces of the British museumwhich resulted in its director, hartwig fischerwill resign due to the impossibility of giving a quick and clear answer.
Above, now countries like Greece, Nigeria and China questioned the ability of Museum to safeguard the historical heritage and requested the restitution of various pieces to their countries of origin.
The Greek Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoniwas the first official to notice that the robbery in the British museum he sowed doubts about his “credibility” by reiterating the claim for the reunification of the Parthenon marbles.
The insecurity of the museum triggered the claim of the countries
Hours after Fischer’s resignation, Abba Isa Tijanidirector of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria, took advantage of the credibility crisis of the British Museum and demanded the return of the Benin sculptures 16th century on the chain skynews: “It is shocking to hear that the countries and museums that have been telling us that the benin bronzes they would not be safe in Nigeriathey suffer robberies”.
China It also joined the wave of claims and asked it to return all Chinese cultural objects acquired through what Beijing considered “inappropriate channels.”
“We urge the British government to cooperate in legal and other procedures to facilitate the process, which will be a test and verification of Britain’s sincerity in cleaning up the colonial stain and making amends for its historical sins,” the government added from a text. published in the state newspaper Global Times.
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It is difficult to trace exactly how China he lost them to him British museumbut most of the Chinese collections were certainly looted or stolen by Britain when he created and then took advantage of the crisis of Chinaor even stole directly from China”, the government of that country maintained about why the pieces are in the British Museum.
In fact, the British Museum Act of 1963 currently prohibits the full return of artefacts. Essentially, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunakhe said on March 13, when asked about the Parthenon marbles: “He United Kingdom has cared for the Elgin Marbles for generations. The collection of British museum It is protected by law and we have no plans to change it.”
Given this, the British leader Bell Ribeiro Addychairman of the multi-party parliamentary group on African reparations, argued that the 1963 law that prevents the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and Benin bronzes, which Germany set a precedent in May when it handed back those it had, should be changed. Nigeria.
On August 25, hartwig fischer announced his resignation from the institution, after discovering the thefts of his collections over several years, which revealed failures in the security system of the prestigious London institution.
Located in the center of London, the museum has among its collections pieces such as the rosetta stone (fragment of an Egyptian stele that allowed the deciphering of hieroglyphs at the beginning of the 19th century) and the Parthenon marbles and in recent days he came to the media because he had fired one of his workers for being allegedly responsible for “stolen or damaged” objects.
The missing pieces include gold jewelry, semi-precious stones and crystals from collections spanning from the 15th century BC to the 19th century after the Christian era.
the police of London He accepted that he had carried out interrogations but that so far there had been no arrests.
Source: Ambito
