According to the police chargesheet, he went into each room and smashed the display case and the contents. He beats each one with a metal chair. He smashed a sixth-century Greek amphora and a vessel from 450 BC. Both are reported to be worth about $ 5 million.
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Brian also destroyed a $ 100,000 statue of the Kyliex Heracles and Nemion Lion. He smashed the ‘Bata Kuhu Alligator Garfish’ statue with a sanitizer stand installed in the museum. The statue is valued at $ 10,000. When the display case collapsed, Brian threw the statue to the floor and tore it to pieces.
Police said the items inside the destroyed display case were very valuable and rare antique sculptures. In addition to the sculptures, Brian also destroyed other items, including a laptop, monitor, phone, four Plexiglas display cases, and two wooden displays.
Later in the museum, he calmed down when the securities arrived. He told one of the security guards that he did this out of anger at his girlfriend. Brian was immediately taken into police custody. He also confessed to the police.
Kenneth Bennett, the museum’s director of security and operations, said Brian had caused about $ 5.2 million in damage. He said the amount would change after a final assessment by the museum’s curator and the insurance company.
It was also big news that a man dressed as a woman kicked Leonardo da Vinci’s famous movie Mona Lisa recently. The man, dressed as an elderly woman, arrived in a wheelchair. No other damage was done to the picture but the white cream of the cake was smeared all over the outside glass. There was an acid attack on the Mona Lisa painting in the 1950s. This was followed by the construction of a glass shield over the painting. There have been several attempts to steal and destroy the painting before.
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