Brit holidaymaker escapes ‘curse’ of Pompeii after getting caught stealing historic artefacts
A British holiday producer trying to leave Pompeii with stones stolen is fined – but thanks to the Italian police, he will avoid the ‘curse of the ruined city.
The 51 -year -old Scottish man was held by civil servants as he left the embedded Roman settlement and was found with a piece of stolen stones.
The man was unaware that the previous light -fingered tourists, who left Pompeii with stolen objects, repent years later and claimed that their thieves brought them sorrowless misfortune.
Accordingly TimesA police spokesman: ‘We caught a scotsman before he escaped this week, but we may have saved him from the curse.’
The man, who was not named by the police, allegedly put loose stones in his backpack while visiting the city, which was buried by the explosion of Vesuvius in AD79.
If the alleged thief is now not their first crimes, he may encounter a hearing that may lead to a fine or even imprisonment until € 1,500.
A British holiday producer trying to leave Pompeii with stones stolen is fined – but thanks to the Italian police, he will avoid the ‘curse of the ruined city. Above: An Officer examines the stolen objects
The 51 -year -old Scottish man was held by civil servants as he left the embedded Roman settlement and was found with a piece of stolen stones.
The guide reported that he and the police were informed.
Police spokesman added: ‘Pompeii’den said that it was forbidden to remove the works, he said.
‘He was trying to get out of the problem, but it didn’t work.’
It comes after Pompeii shows that an American tourist who stole pumice stones has divorced and develops breast cancer.
At the beginning of last year, DEB from Pennsylvania told Daily Mail how he went to Pompeii during a holiday in Southern Italy in 2011 and took two stones from the archaeological site there.
However, after returning home, he became ill in eight years and his marriage collapsed, so he decided to return the stones in 2020.
It comes after Pompeii shows that an American tourist who stole pumice stones has divorced and develops breast cancer. Returned the stones with a magical apology letter
He said: ‘When I returned from Italy soon after that, I divorced and a year later I experienced breast cancer.’
When he returned the stones, he added a letter, ‘I didn’t know about the damn’.
“Please apologize and accept these pieces.”
In 2020, he sent a package containing a ceramic with a Canadian woman, two mosaic tiles, two mosaic tiles, an amphora pieces, and a ceramic to a travel agency in the Italian city.
Pompeii was buried in the explosion of Vesuvius Mountain at 79 AD
Nicole, who played his works in 2005, said that he returned to them after 15 years of bad luck.
He wrote a letter of confession, which he detailed theft, including two breast cancer and financial distress, and later the misfortune work.
Nicole wrote: ‘Please take them back, they bring bad luck.’
He said he bought artifacts because he wanted to be a piece of history that no one had, but ‘they had too many negative energy … Linking to the country of destruction’.
And in 2015, a British woman returned a piece of mosaic in the 1970s that her family received from Pompeii.
He claimed that the object brought the unfortunate for years.
