Chair of parliamentary reparations group hits out at law preventing return of Parthenon marbles and Benin bronzes
preventing the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes should be changed.
Fischer said he accepted responsibility for the museum’s failure to properly respond to warnings in 2021 about the suspected thefts of objects. The museum’s deputy director, Jonathan Williams, has stepped back from his normal duties until an independent review into the suspected thefts has concluded.
One “silver lining to a dark cloud”, he said, was that the museum had begun to recover some of the stolen items, which he described as “small items of jewellery, gems, bits of gold that were not on public display”. Osborne said the museum was working with the art loss register and members of the antiquarian community to return missing items. Security has been stepped up around museum storerooms.
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