史上最大的艺术品盗窃案（2021）

That was the priority that I think we all saw.
我想我们都认为 那应该是一个优先事项
I'll never forget, it was raining and there was actually a cloud that formed
我永远不会忘记 有一天下了雨 在西班牙回廊
in the Spanish Cloister in front of the El Jaleo,
"哈雷奥"的前面居然起了一团云雾
because the moisturexa0outside was as high as the moisture inside.
因为室内外的湿度一样高
There was a sewer pipe that broke in one of the galleries.
其中一间展厅里 有一根污水管破了
The cast iron gave way
铸铁管子撑不住了
and sewagexa0started coming down in the middle of a gallery
污水从上面洒下来 就在展厅的中间
with paintings and things likexa0this, and it's...
周围都是画和其他艺术品 真是...
And that's not good for a museum.
一个博物馆弄成这样可不好
And of course this just blindsided us completely.
当然 这把我们搞得措手不及
Anne Hawley, she was so despondent.
安妮·霍利大为沮丧
She called me,
她给我打电♥话♥
she said tearfully,
哭着说
"You never told me this would happen."
"你可没告诉我会有这种事"
And I said, "I never knew it would happen."
我说"我也不知道会有这种事"
Were you ever warned,
有没有人提醒过你
"Hey, watch out, you could get robbed," or anything likexa0that?
"小心 你们可能会失窃" 或者类似的警告
Yeah. No.
没有
When an organization or a person becomes a victim,
当一个机构或者个人成为受害者
there's just a pile-on that happens.
更多麻烦就会接踵而至
Calls would come in from people in prisons
全国各地监狱里的囚犯
around the country,
都给我们打来电♥话♥
that wouldn't talk to the FBI,
他们不找联邦调查局
they wanted toxa0talk to me or the security director,
而是想找我或者安保主管
because they said they had information that they wanted to trade.
因为他们说他们知道一些信息 提出交换条件
But I certainly didn't have the skill set to be strategizing the investigation.
但我当然没有相关的技能去筹划案件调查的工作
I want to refer all security questions to the FBI.
我想把所有关于安防的问题都留给联邦调查局去回答
And then, on top of that,
而且不仅如此
the museum gotxa0several bomb threats and threats on people's lives.
博物馆还接到了几个炸♥弹♥威胁以及对人的死亡威胁
So, there was a whole dark side going on.
所以 这背后有巨大的黑暗势力作祟
Crime is suddenly the dark obsession
突然间 犯罪集团的黑手
of the opulent world of art.
伸向了珠光宝气的艺术世界
The black tiexa0business of champagne and culture
衣冠楚楚 杯觥交错的高雅氛围
and price tags big as the Ritz
还有天价的交易额
has made art burglary a booming industry.
让艺术品盗窃成了一门蓬勃发展的生意
A shadowxa0enterprise stripped of romance
这是一门毫无浪漫可言的地下生意
that experts claim is increasingly tied to the drug trade.
专家称 这些人与毒品交易存在越来越紧密的联♥系♥
2,950,000.
295万
We've come this far.
已经叫到这个地步了
It doesn't take a person with a bad mind
一个居心不良的人
long to start feeling maybe there's an opportunity here to make money.
很快就会意识到 也许这里面有赚钱的机会
In the old days, a cat burglar pried open the skylight,
过去不过是些小贼溜门撬锁
came down on the rope and took the pictures out and so on.
拴一根绳子爬下来 把画偷走
Now people walk into museums and say, "Stick 'em up!"
现在他们开始明目张胆走进博物馆说"把东西交出来"
The clandestine activity in the traffic of stolen art, worldwide,
全世界失窃艺术品的黑市交易量
is probablyxa0about three quarters of a billion dollars.
可能已经达到7.5亿美元
Billion? Yes.
-7.5亿 -对
In the 1980s, the crime of art theft increased,
20世纪80年代 艺术品盗窃案增多了
but it made sense, because the value of art was rising.
这不奇怪 因为艺术品的价格上升了
If we're talking iconic works of art from museums and galleries here,
如果是来自博物馆和画廊的著名艺术品
the sort of things that can't be resold through the legal art market,
无法在合法的艺术品市场上出手
then thisxa0is used by the criminals as collateral.
那么犯罪分子就会用来当作抵押物
That's how it works.
就是这样
If you are the owner of a house
如果你有一栋房♥产
and you decide that you need some investment money,
你做投资需要一笔钱
you go to the bank
那么你可以去银行
and they will advance you money against your house.
用房♥产做抵押 他们就会给你贷款
That's exactly how the black marketxa0works.
黑市也是这样运作的
Back then, cocaine was a pretty big business.
当年 可♥卡♥因♥的生意做得很大
There was a number of people involved in that business making a buck from it.
很多人都做可♥卡♥因♥生意 从中捞一笔
I lived in South Boston in the 1980s and the 1990s.
20世纪80到90年代 我住在南波士顿
There was more cocaine inxa0South Boston than any neighborhood in the city.
南波士顿的可♥卡♥因♥问题在全市是最严重的
It was everywhere.
泛滥成灾
I mean, I literally saw people do it on bar tops.
我亲眼见过人们在吧台吸食
These were not nice establishments.
都不是什么正经地方
Did not bring my wife to these establishments.
我没带妻子去过
But it happened.
但就是那样
Say, for instance, you have a large cocaine shipment,
比如说 你有一大批可♥卡♥因♥
say, 20 kilos ofxa0cocaine,
比如 20公斤可♥卡♥因♥
but you don't have anything more than 20,000 bucks cash to putxa0down.
可是你最多只能拿出两万美元现款
But you have several millionxa0dollars' worth of stolen art.
但你还有价值几百万美元的偷来的艺术品
So you give that art as security.
那么你就可以用艺术品作为抵押
And they hold the art
他们先拿着这些艺术品
until they'rexa0reimbursed for whatever the value of thexa0cocaine is.
直到你把欠下的可♥卡♥因♥的钱款还上
That's how that goes.
就是这样
They take that recorded legitimate value
他们根据官方的估价
and they run with anywhere between three and ten percent of that
取百分之三到百分之十
as being whatxa0it's worth on the black market to the criminals.
这就是犯罪分子可以接受的黑市价
Why do people steal artwork? Well, there's a number of reasons.
为什么有人要偷窃艺术品呢 原因很多
You get it because you wanna continue to look at it.
因为你想继续欣赏
You want the reward. You want the insurance money.
你想要赏金 你想要保险赔偿金
You wanna save yourself from jail, you wanna getxa0somebody out of jail.
你想避免进监狱 你想搭救某人出狱
So it's a good bartering piece.
它是件很好的交换商品
You know, there's a good example of Myles Connor in Boston
迈尔斯·康纳从波士顿美术馆
stealing the Rembrandt from the Museum of Fine Art.
偷走了一幅伦勃朗的画 就是个很好的例子
Uh, his intention was, all along,
他的动机始终是
to usexa0that as a bargaining chip over his next sentence.
用那幅画作为筹码 为自己减刑
So you gotta look at the motive behind the theft.
你看看那次盗窃的动机
That's all Myles.
这都是迈尔斯的
Myles did a lot of jail time.
迈尔斯坐过很多年牢
State prison time, federal time.
在州监狱 联邦监狱
It's the mid-'70s,
那是70年代中期
and Myles had a parole violation with the Feds.
迈尔斯违反了联邦警♥察♥的假释规定
Then he was picked up in Mashpee with some stolen paintings.
他在马什皮被捕 同时起获了几幅偷来的画
I made a deal that they would reduce his million-dollar bail down to $100.
我和警方达成协议 让他们把保释金额从百万美元降到100美元
Believe it or not, Myles, he's on the street now.
信不信由你 迈尔斯现在在外面呢
I got the idea from an FBI agent...
一个联邦探员给了我启发...
that said, "it'll take a Rembrandt to get you out of this, Connor."
他说"康纳 你要想脱罪 除非你能搞来伦勃朗的画"
I said, "Okay."
我说"好吧"
And so, I knew there was a Rembrandt on loan,
我知道有一幅伦勃朗的画被借来展出
and it was uninsured.
还没上保险
And I knew that it could be taken.
我知道可以得手
Myles went in,
迈尔斯进去了
joined a tour that was going on.
混进看展的人流
Had somebody with him,
还有一个帮手
removed the painting from the wall, went to walkxa0out.
把画从墙上取下来 往外走
The guards...
保安...
These guards were not musicians like at the Isabella Stewart Gardner.
这些保安不像在伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳博物馆
These guys were all retired cops.
这些人都是退休警♥察♥
There was a phalanx of guards.
有一大群保安
A friend of mine was down there with a machine gun.
我的一个朋友埋伏在那里 端着机关枪
Not to shoot anybody,
不是要打死谁
but to shoot at the feet of anybody.
只是打他们的脚
And sure enough, they came down.
果然 他们下来了
He let go of the machine gun.
他的机关枪开火了
When that thing goes off, it was like a vacuum.
枪一响 就像清场了似的
Took 'em all back.
所有人都潮水般地往后退
Except for one that was a retired Polish cop.
除了一个人 他是个波兰裔的退休警♥察♥
And he was convinced that...
他非常坚决...
"I am not letting this kid take this fucking painting on my watch."
"不能让这个小子在我眼皮底下把画抢走"
So, he ran down, he latched onto the painting.
所以他冲过来 抓住画
And in the back of the van,
在面包车后面
I've gotxa0another friend,
我还有一个朋友
with another machine gun.
也端着机关枪
He aims the machine gun at the guy. I said, "Do not shoot the guy."
他瞄准了那个人 我说"别打死他"
He hits the guy in the head
他用枪托击打
wh... with his gun.
那人的头
And finally the guy lets go.
他终于放手了
It later surfaced under a lady's bed
后来 这幅画在一位女士的床底下被发现了
to be returned to Mass State Police.
交还给了马萨诸塞州警♥察♥