Acropolis Museum: a group of young gypsies stole coins

Five women broke into an excavation site at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and stole coins.

The incident took place at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday evening on Dionysiou Areopagite Street, where five young girls, including two minors, were spotted by a security guard from the Acropolis Museum entering the museum’s excavation site and carrying off an unknown number of coins from various countries, media reported on Wednesday morning.

Police officers detained the girls (among them two 17-year-olds), against whom the Acropolis security department initiated a case on the fact of theft.

A place where tourists throw coins as a keepsake

It is worth noting that we were not talking about ancient coins. Everything is just the opposite – at the entrance to the Acropolis Museum, tourists throw coins down from a kind of bridge to the place where archaeological excavations are being carried out … as a keepsake, or to return, some kind of tribute to tradition.

It was this place that became the goal of young gypsies who decided to collect these coins. The girls climbed over 2 fences and entered the excavation site, where they collected the most valuable coins, after which, allegedly, they disappeared.

The Acropolis Museum – at least in theory – is one of the most protected places in the Greek capital Athens. However, when it comes to the gypsies, the guards seem to go into a kind of daze.

A rebuttal from the museum later appeared, stating the following:

“On the evening of Tuesday, August 22, 2023, after the closure of the Acropolis Museum, six minors were found in its courtyard. The museum’s security personnel immediately notified the police and legal action was taken. The Acropolis Museum regrets the inaccurate information and the disproportionate importance given to this matter, which gives the wrong impression.”

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