2003-05-19
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | The world in his hands: Britain's most wanted art thief who steals maps to orderThe footage, taken from CCTV cameras, is a little grainy and jumpy. But police and security experts have little doubt about what it shows. A bespectacled man is sitting in a reading room at Copenhagen's Royal Library, poring over leatherbound books of 400-year-old maps. The man appears to take a blade, quickly cut out a plate and slip it on to his chair. He apparently repeats the exercise several times before transferring a small pile of maps into his coat.
