The Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang is known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", and its rich historical and cultural heritage attracts tourists from all over the world. In order to promote cultural exchanges, the United States borrowed 10 terracotta warriors from us to exhibit, along with other cultural relics such as coins, gold, jade and weapons. However, the good terracotta warriors have experienced a "robbery" at the Philadelphia Museum in the United States.
According to surveillance at the time, at night, a man in a green sweater and baseball cap came to the museum, turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and looked at the terracotta warriors for half a day, and then sneaked into the closed area unscrupulously and hooked up with the clay figurines.
According to written testimony of Jacob Archer, an FBI art crime team agent, the young man, Michael Rohana, not only reached for the figurines but also took a selfie.
Not only that, but Rohana even grabbed the left hand of the clay figurine, broke off its thumb, and then left with his friends with this thumb and returned to his home in the Bell area of Delaware.
After discovering the damage to the figurines, Archer went to Rohana's home. Asked if there was anything he wanted to turn in, Rohana said he had a "finger" and he picked up the broken terracotta finger from the table and handed it to Archer. Later, Rohana was charged with stealing and hiding museum artwork and interstate stolen goods. According to foreign media estimates, the figurine is worth $4.5 million (about 28 million yuan). After the accident, the museum said that the security personnel did not follow the "standard closure process" that night, which led to negligence.
However, the outcome of the trial in this case was a shock. Rohana's lawyer said his client had drunk that night, was delirious and had no idea what he had done. In response to this statement, the US jury voted, and as a result, more than half of the jurors believed that Rohana should not be punished. Eventually, Rohana was acquitted.
(Source: The New York Times)
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