At the beginning of March there was a fact at least surprising. A seventeenth -century picture of the Immaculate Conception had disappeared from the units of the City of Arcos de la Frontera.
This oil painting on 92×66 cm canvas that was in the Mayor’s Office had vanished. For many months, practically all the neighbors were asked that the Delegate of Culture, Andrés Camarena, went to the legal services of the Consistory to file a complaint. It was investigated if you were trying to sell in the black market of antiques, but nothing was. No trace.
In the end, the Civil Guard of Cádiz has recovered in arches a picture of the 18th century Property of the Consistory that had been removed from it illegally. The work has already been recovered and delivered to the Culture Delegation of the City Council.
The investigations began after receiving The courts of Arcos de la Frontera A complaint filed by the municipal delegate of the City Council for the disappearance of a work belonging to said town hall.
On the part of the Court of first Instance and Instruction number 4 of Arcos de la Frontera, the investigation was responsible for the Organic Judicial Police Unit of Cádiz to clarify the facts denounced. A picture of the Immaculate Conception had disappeared, an oil painting on 92×66 cm canvas that He was in the Mayor’s Officein the building of the Plaza del Cabildo.
After months of searching in municipal offices and warehouses without success, those responsible for the session decided to file the corresponding complaint before the Civil Guard, since this work was listed since 2006 in the Municipal Pinacoteca with number 52, possibly belonging to the Jesuit congregation that existed in Arcos.
At the house of a municipal worker, already deceased
The first investigations focused on rule out That the work was offering fraudulently through portals specialized in the commercialization of works of art, being discarded said end after an intense search.
Discarded this last possibility, the investigation work of the civil guards of the Crimes Equity team of the Organic Judicial Police Unit of Cádiz, He pointed to a municipal worker of the City Councilof some relevance, which had already deceased.
Was the person who pI hate having removed the picture of the units municipal, so the relevant efforts with their relatives were made to locate the work in a reliable way.
After carefully explaining to the family the circumstances in which the work left the Consistory, and the obligations, consequences and particularities that affect the possession of said work, the authorizations of the owners, for access to family home, Where the painting was, being offended and returned to the Consistory, in perfect condition, to enjoy all the neighbors of Arcos de la Frontera.
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