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We voted against this report in order to condemn the hypocrisy of a text which claims to oppose the renewed outbreak of thefts of cultural objects in the European Union and the illicit trade in such objects.
The author of this text forgets to point out that not only the national museums of the countries of Europe but also private collections are filled with cultural objects pillaged over centuries from the countries of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America or Africa
While the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin are filled with the wonders of ancient art, in Greece there are mostly only plaster copies now.
In museums, these cultural objects are at least exhibited to the public. The same is not true, however, of private collections.
If this text is claiming to prevent illicit trade, it should first of all define as illicit all purchases which enable extremely rich individuals to appropriate and keep for their own private use cultural goods which ought to be the heritage of the whole of humanity and accessible to everyone."@en1
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