Kilt-Wearing Attacker Charged After Smashing Ancient Scottish Stone

London (AP) – A man from Australia was accused of “malicious mischief olan, alleged to have shredd a glass case. Fate stoneAn old symbol of the Scottish nation.

35 -year -old Arnaud Harixcalde Logan appeared on Monday at the Perth Sharif Court to confront the charges similar to vandalism.

Logan was not asked to enter a defense and was detained until next week.

Police said he was called “discomfort ında at the Perth Museum in the center of Scotland on Saturday after the reports of a man wearing a seat trying to break the case containing Royal Rock.

The sandstone block of 335 pounds (150 kilograms) is also known as Scone (Skoon) Stone and was used in the crowning ceremonies of the medieval Scottish rulers in the Scone Monastery near Perth. In the 13th century, he was stolen by Edward I, the king of England, and was taken to Westminster Abbey in London, where he was founded in the seat of the crowned seat.

It has been used in the coronation ceremonies in Abbey since then – the British and Scottish crowns of English and then the British rulers united under a ruler in the 17th century.

The existence of the stone in London has long disturbed Scottish nationalists. In 1950, he was stolen from Westminster Abbey by four Glasgow University students, but in 1953, Queen II. Elizabeth was returned on time for the crown ceremony.

700 years after his guard, he was returned to Scotland in 1996 and exhibited at Edinburgh Castle, with his understanding that he would return to England to be used in future crown ceremonies. The sensitivities around the stone were moved to London in confidentiality and in 2023, King III.

Last year, according to the building’s website, it was exhibited in the newly renewed PeTH Museum, which has a 24/7 security measures in the museum to protect this valuable object ”.

Culture and Kinross, who supervised the museum, said that the stone was not damaged in the incident.