With a spectacular campaign, two British stolen an artistic toilet made of 18-carat gold. You have to go to prison now.
It is not entirely clear what exactly happened with the famous toilet called “America” from the birthplace of Winston Churchill. “America was never seen again,” the judge said when the punishment was announced. The 40-year-old was almost certainly the one who led the hiding place with whom the toilet was separated from the pipes in crime in September 2019.
Sitting on a golden toilet
The fully functional toilet had an insurance value of £ 4.75 million (around 5.64 million euros). She came from the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and was the central goal of an exhibition in the spacious country house in the Graafschap Oxfordshire, in which on November 30, 1874 the later Prime Minister, winner of the Second World War and the Nobel Prize winner Churchill was born.
The golden toilet was exhibited opposite the birth room of Churchill. Visitors were allowed to use it – but only a maximum of three minutes to prevent snakes. The toilet in the New York Guggenheim Museum was already seen in 2016.
There is still no trace of the toilet
A 40-year-old, who is already in custody because of another crime, was eventually sentenced to four extra years by the responsible court in Oxford. A 39-year-old has to go to prison for two years and three months, as the PA press agency reported.
The stolen golden toilet could not be found. According to the researchers it was cut or melted.
Source: Krone
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