Shipwreck plunder, art among nearly 38,000 items seized in police crackdown
It was October 2024 when a woman traveling from the sunny Mediterranean island of Mallorca to Germany was stopped by Spain's customs police for a routine inspection. In her luggage were several seemingly innocuous items: 55 coins and a ring.
The woman told officials the items belonged to her late husband, an archaeologist and diver who lived on the Balearic Islands. She intended to take the objects to Germany to have them evaluated and sold, a spokeswoman for Spain's Civil Guard said.
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