Theft in the Basilica of San Nicola, 50 years old subjected to arrest
The accusations aggravated by having violated a place of worship
There is a detention for the case of the theft that took place in the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari on the night between Monday and Tuesday. He is a 50-year-old of Moroccan nationality who has a small criminal record and who is now in prison awaiting validation on charges of burglary aggravated by violating a place of worship.
According to the reconstruction of the investigators, around 4 in the morning he had arrived in the church square by bicycle, he would have ripped up a grating next to the bell tower and then entered the building by breaking through a wooden side door.
From the nave and the crypt he would take away, in addition to the change of the offerings, a gold ring, the gospel book with the three silver spheres and a medallion containing a vial of the sacred manna, torn from the hands of the statue of St. Nicholas. The man was identified thanks to the images of the surveillance cameras of the Basilica.
(Unioneonline / ss)
