Looting at Palmyra? - A video proof?

A video, distributed by French news platform France24 shows some men in uniforms when handling with ancient statues. The video was filmed with a cameraphone at the 18th of february at the UNESCO World heritage site of Palmyra in Syria.

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"They want these ones?" asks one of the uniformed. French journalists asking the Syrian embassy in Paris wether military has taken action to secure the finds in Palmyra has not yet been answered.

The video is no proof for plundering of the site - though supposable we witness an appointed theft of ancient statues from the museum or the site at Palmyra.

source

• France 24 (30.7.2012): Une vidéo amateur ravive les craintes de pillage sur les sites archéologiques de Syrie
• Video at YouTube 

Internal link

• Neue Meldungen aus Syrien (some more links to mainly German news reports)
• Räuber in Syrien (earlier looting in Palmyra, in German)
• German media manager plundered UNESCO world heritage (2010)
• German version of this post

Postscript (October, 24th )
In the meantime there are Palmyrian reliefs at ebay.

• ttt titel thesen temperamente v. 21.10.2012: Syriens Weltkulturerbe in Gefahr (German TV)
• Archaeologik (23.10.2012): Plünderung "mit Listen was heraus gebracht werden soll"