The man in his 40s allegedly smashed the two second-century marble sculptures as he thought they were 'blasphemous'.
A man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with the incident at the Israel Museum A tourist from the US has been arrested in Israel for allegedly smashing ancient Roman statues which he found ‘blasphemous’. Police say the suspect, a man in his 40s, deliberately destroyed the marble sculptures at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem because ‘he believes they go against the Torah’.
One of the statues was a marble piece of a griffin holding a wheel One is thought to be the head of a marble statue of Athena, the Greek goddess known to the Romans as Minerva, which was found in northern Israel in 1978. The other is a marble statue of a griffin holding a wheel, which represented the Roman goddess Nemesis, found in the Negev desert in 1957. They have been taken to the musem’s preservation lab where specialists will try to restore them, police added.
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American tourist 'smashed Roman statues that offended his religious sensibilities'A tourist from the US has been arrested in Israel for allegedly smashing two ancient Roman statues because he thought they were 'blasphemous'. Police say the suspect, a man in his 40s, deliberately destroyed the sculptures as they are 'in violation of the Torah', according to a statement rep...
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