Carlos Perches and Ramón Sardina decided that Christmas 1985 was the ideal time to execute their plan.
One day in December 1985, the night guards changed with the day guards inside the Museum of Anthropology of Mexico. However, it was at that moment that they realized that 140 pieces were missing.
The theft, which the then director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Enrique Florescanojustified as one of a series of thefts of works of art, had been carried out by two young people.
How the theft of pieces from the Museum of Anthropology of Mexico was carried out
Carlos Perches and Ramon Sardina they chose Christmas Eve as an ideal time to execute the plan, which had been carefully prepared. It took them half a year to review every entry and exit.the most valuable pieces and even the public’s favorites.
After having entered the museum around 50 times, they did not fail with their strategy; They jumped over a wall that separated the place from the street and entered through the ventilation ducts. None of the nine guards present noticed the presence of two intruders, who circumvented the weak security system at that time.
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They were there from 1:00 to 4:00 in the morning, three hours that were enough for them to take the 140 pieces, among which the pakal mask, the mask of the Bat God and the Obsidian Monkey vaseas well as other small pieces of gold work and pieces of jade jewelry.
The Mexican Government and Interpol began an exhaustive search to find the culprits. At the same time, the MNA, far from closing its doors, allowed visitors to enter to be dazzled by the empty display cases among the works that resisted theft.
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The motive behind the two young men’s plan was never known.. The works finally returned, led by the mother of Carlos Perches who She found the pieces while cleaning out her son’s closet and returned them to where they belonged.
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