Machala in the hood, bust in the crate and hood. Television has posted embargoed video
They have shots from Thursday.
Levoča. Police cars, wooden box, white van, squad with machine guns. Private local television TV Levoča published shots from the transfer of Donatella Busta from the Spiš Museum in Levoča on Tuesday afternoon.
This is an exclusive video. Television is the only medium in Slovakia that captured the migration of a rare work. She also marked the whole video with her logo.
Lens cameras They captured not only a special transport container in which the bust was to be placed, but also the moments of signing documents related to the transport of artwork.
The report is available on this link. It was shot last week on Thursday morning during the transfer of the bust.
To publish the shots, television had been from Thursday from the Ministry under the leadership Martina Šimkovičová (SNS nominee) Embargo. The television eventually published them on Tuesday, when the resort sent a large statement to the media on the transfer of the bust.
Unique material
The video also captures a protocol on the state of the work, in which the Slovak National Museum – Spiš, Levoča is mentioned as the owner. As the author of the work is mentioned Donatello with three question marks.
The footsteps are also taken by the Secretary General of the Service Office of the Ministry of Culture Lukáš Machala. Stands in front of the museum building, dressed in a sweatshirt, has a hood on his head and in his hands mobile phone.
In the reports, they say that the transport was carried out in strictly classified mode, but the team of TV Levoča, « which was at the right moment in the right place, managed to make a unique material ».
Cameraman and television owner Vladimír Adamkovič told Corsair on Thursday that he was at the post office, saw that something was happening in front of the museum, intuitively withdrew the camera from the car and started shooting it.
Machala claimed contacts from him that he gave him an embargo to publish shots until the ministry officially commented on it.
A rare bust is stored in this. It was transported by a specialized company. (Source: TV Levoča)Several question marks
The report states that the transport was died under the police protection of a special unit known as a special destination or Lynx Commando. It will also be heard that he supervised Machala.
As he sounds in an approximately five -minute report, the Secretary -General outside the camera and the microphone for television said that the rare marble bust is transported to a better secured place, he did not say what.
Television notes that there are several questionnaires hanging over the whole way of carrying out the transfer.
Vladimír Olejník, chairman of the Spiš History Association for TV Levoča says that this is a procedure that was not elected happily. According to him, the standard transmission of the monument requires the long -term transport of two engaged institutions, the one who issues it and who receives it.
« Land contracts, insurance, safe transfer, » he described for private television.
They also mention that it caused a wave of emotions in Levoča. We focused on this topic in a separate report.
Source: TV Levoča
What does not go in Slovakia, yes in the Czech Republic
No media were called to transport the bust, and it was not a problem in the Czech Republic. When in 2019 in the Czech Republic transported the oldest and most expensive statuette of the world Vesonic Venus, it was moved from the Brno Moravian Museum to the Museum in Olomouc in Olomouc.
Soška is a national cultural monument. She was transported in a vault in a bulletproof box. During the transfer, however, journalists were also present and shots from moving 30,000 years of old statuette appeared in many media. They also reported to journalists that they were moving the statuette. Even the Czech media informed Venus about moving before it happened.
We talked to Filip Rožánek, journalist and media analyst, who specializes in the Czech media scene, some time ago.
According to him, the assistance of the police and the armed forces is normal in such a case, similarly when transferring a rare statuette in Brno. But it did not take place at that time that journalists could not do their work or lack standard media communication.
« Such shots are attractive, it will not miss public attention. But I find it incredible to identify a journalist and push him to publish shots. It is also absurd if the Ministry of Culture wants to instruct with the publication of any shots. »
He recalled that the state authority has limited possibilities towards journalists. « If it were a safety instruction, I would expect it from security services, not from the Ministry of Culture. »
Safety standards
The Ministry of Culture reported on Tuesday that it had taken extraordinary security measures to ensure the bust of Cecilia Gonzaga. According to the spokeswoman of the resort Petra Bačinská premises of the Levoča Museum, they do not meet the highest security standards.
Former director of the Slovak National Museum Branislav Panis recently claimed the opposite.
« While I was the CEO of the Slovak National Museum, all the standard rules for securing the depository premises were secured in Levoča. Based on the statements of Mrs. Novotná I assume that they meet the standards for safe storage there. »
« On the basis of the agreement, the place of deposit within the organizational structure of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic was determined. All more detailed information on the process or specific placement is non -public. Since it was a strict confidential regime in connection with the transport and deposit of the collection object, we call on the public and the media not to spread sensitive information, » the Ministry of Culture said.
Where the bust is stored did not specify. According to previously media information, he is in the Security Center of the Ministry of the Interior.
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Resort: It is not enough to add a lock to the door
Bačinská claims that all conditions are met in the new place in terms of safety and professional storage. According to the ministry, the protocol on the takeover of the work was created in advance and signed on the spot.
« A work like a bust of Cecilia gonzags cannot be stored in a standard depository. It is not enough to add a door lock. It needs a comprehensive security regime at a level that does not currently meet any museum or gallery in Slovakia. »
The resort rejected any accusations of arbitrary or illegal proceedings and notes that the transport of the bust was in accordance with the law.
Panis said the whole transport had happened in a very non -standard way.
« The Ministry of Culture has decided to take it from the Spiš Museum to an unknown place because of the increased protection of the bust, as communicated on Thursday. It opens up many questions whether it was necessary whether it was right and whether it was in all respects as it should have been – now I think paper. »
The marble bust, most likely created by the Renaissance sculptural champion Donatello in the mid -15th century, was identified in the depository of the art historian Marta Herucová.
Its authenticity was confirmed by the expert a few years ago, the wider public learned about this work only earlier this year.
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