Spain delivers 12 “blood antiquities” to Libya that financed Daesh terrorism

The pieces, eight mosaics and four sculptures, were looted in the cities of Albaida, Apolonia and Cirene and found in 2018 in the warehouses of an antique dealer in Barcelona.

The twelve pieces were looted by Daesh and delivered to Libya, Spain Ivy

Monica Arrizabalaga

November 24, 2023

Updated at 6:42 p.m.

“Shut up, don’t say that on the phone!” Before the agents of the Historical Heritage Brigade arrested in 2018 the Catalan antique dealer Jaume Bagot, until then considered a “prodigy” of ancient art, and his partner Oriol Carrerasthey tried…

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About the author
Monica Arrizabalaga

Editor specializing in archeology and heritage. Author of “Spain, the Imaginary History” (Espasa) and co-author, with Federico Ayala, of “La Gaceta Olvidada” (Libros.com).

Monica Arrizabalaga
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