{"id":14580,"date":"2025-08-21T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14580\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:50:10","slug":"statue-by-renowned-sculptor-yannis-pappas-stolen-at-nikaia-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14580\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas stolen at Nikaia square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/statue_new.png\" alt=\"Statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas stolen at Nikaia square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/statue_new.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A bronze statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas was reported stolen Thursday morning from the Paidikis Stegis (Children\u2019s Shelter) square in Piraeus\u2019 Nikaia district.<\/p>\n<p>The theft was discovered by a local resident walking her dog, early Thursday morning, who alerted municipal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police from Piraeus and Nikaia have inspected the site and are reviewing footage from nearby surveillance cameras. The municipality has filed suit against unknown persons.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Konstantinos Maragakis condemned the incident, calling it \u201cnot just a criminal act against public property\u201d but also an \u201cinsult to the historical memory and the collective identity of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work, titled \u201cThe Woman of the People\u201d, depicts a petite older woman whose posture, expression, and clothing convey the unseen heroism and burden of working-class women\u2019s daily labor.<\/p>\n<p>A third casting of the original, it was created in the 1970s and donated to the municipality in 2016 by the late artist\u2019s son, Alekos Pappas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bronze statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas was reported stolen Thursday morning from the Paidikis Stegis (Children\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,715,1067,366,18,117,19,17,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-14580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-culture","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}