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41st year  -  N° 55                 Tuesday, 24 February 2026         Antwerpen		
It's Just Blood, Blood on the Floor
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Thursday 7th of September 1911
115 years, 5 months and 17 days ago




31-year-old surrealist writer Guillaume Apollinaire, originally Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki is arrested and jailed on suspicion of aiding and abetting the theft of the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Apollinaire was released a week later. The thefts were committed by Vincenzo Peruggia to whom Apollinaire gave shelter and Apollinaire voluntarily surrendered a number of stolen statuettes left behind by him.