The
museum worker had hidden the stolen piece under his clothes. Written By/ Nevine
El-Aref.
Police
arrested a man today at Mar Girgis metro station in Old Cairo, on suspicion of
stealing an artefact from the Coptic Museum, general-secretary of the Supreme
Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Amin, announced.
Amin
told Ahram Online that the alleged criminal was a security guard at the museum,
and during his shift he chopped off a wooden decorative element from a door
panel from the church of St Barbara.
The
man hid the stolen piece inside a plastic bag under his clothes and left the
museum after finishing his shift.
The
police arrested him at the metro station, which is a short walk away from the
museum.
Elham
Salah, head of the museum department within the antiquities ministry, told
Ahram Online the case was sent to the general-prosecutor and the stolen item
was now in police possession during investigations.
According to Coptic tradition, St. Barbara lived
in the Levant during the third century AD, and who tortured and killed after
she became a Christian.
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