“We are very annoyed by this egregious case,” General Manager of the hotel Genevieve Dumas quoted CTV as saying.
She said that the photo by Yusuf Karsh had been hanging in the reading room of Chateau Laurier since 1998.
Unknown people replaced the original photo with a copy.
The substitution was discovered recently, law enforcement agencies will find out the details of what happened.
In 2019, in the UK, a golden toilet worth about £1 million was stolen from Blenheim Palace, birthplace of Winston Churchill.