{"id":364294,"date":"2025-08-22T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364294\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:27:16","slug":"statue-by-renowned-sculptor-yannis-pappas-stolen-at-nikaia-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364294\/","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\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/statue_new.png\" alt=\"Statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas stolen at Nikaia square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/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":364295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,188,2766,4022,77,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-364294","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-crime","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115071709800475286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}