Berlin police are offering a reward for a valuable violin, thought stolen last December. The rare beauty was built in the early 18th centura by italian violin maker Camillus Camilli of Mantua and disappeared as it was being loaded into a vehicle outside the Messegelände in Masurenallee. Also missing is the bow, a 19th century Voirin und Thomassin. Since the Hertha BSC / Bayern Munich game had just ended police suspect that one of the spectators may have made off with it.
UPDATE - Violin has been found! As suspected a soccer fan's wife noticed it on the street (having been left there by the owner!) as she "visited' the FC Bayern München / Hertha BSC game, and not knowing what to do tossed it in the trunk. She conveniently forgot about it until hearing about the reward.
http://www.berlin.de/polizei/presse-fahndung/archiv/101846/index.html
Camillus Camilli would be pleased.
Posted by: William Thirteen | 02 June 2008 at 17:16