Two American tourists tried to take a piece from Pompeii facade weight of 30 kg
Two American tourists were detained in Rome airport Fiumicino with 30-pound artifact hidden in the Luggage. A piece of stone of the facade was wrapped in the layout of Pompeii. Presumably, the attackers were going to remove the artifact from the country, but the airport security found its tourists in a rented car and confiscated. Now would-be crooks faces charges of misappropriation of cultural property. The airport administration and the police did not disclose details of the alleged theft. The American Embassy in Italy is not yet aware of what happened, so nothing beyond the already known facts soobshilo@
This case, its absurdity is comparable only to that incident in March this year — when a visitor Pinakothek Brera broke off the leg of the statue of the nineteenth century, trying to make selfi@ Sources: thelocal.it, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru
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