{"id":83371,"date":"2025-08-21T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:06:08","slug":"statue-by-renowned-sculptor-yannis-pappas-stolen-at-nikaia-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83371\/","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/statue_new.png\" alt=\"Statue by renowned sculptor Yannis Pappas stolen at Nikaia square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.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":83372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,924,5343,1120,96,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}