[Gocamino] More on the Codex

[blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
The Codex has been returned to the Cathedral in the glare of TV cameras and photographers' flashes which has caused a howl of protest from museum conservators and antiquities' scholars.  In the hand-over all the parties (three from the Cathedral, including the Archbishop, and three from the government), were handling the Codex with bare hands, passing it around repeatedly.  According to the conservators, the handling and the flashes did more harm to the ancient document that what it may have suffered while stashed willy-nilly for a year in one of  the thief's garages. The cavalier handling of the book has renewed the demand that it be relocated to a museum in Madrid where it may be properly preserved and exhibited.
Meanwhile, antiquities experts have valued the Codex at one hundred million Euros.
In addition to the one million two hundred thousand Euros in cash previously found in the thief's various properties, another six hundred thousand have been found, together with three hundred thousand U.S. Dollars (or thirty thousand.... the reports are not clear).
The none-too-bright electrician kept a financial diary annotating on a daily basis the amounts in cash stolen from the Cathedral, which led the authorities to continue to seek the extra six hundred thousand Euros.
Because of an applicable statute of limitations, only those moneys stolen from 2007 will be returned to the Cathedral.
While the electrician and his relatives have continued to maintain that he did not sell any of the stolen valuable artistic objects, one wonders where the U.S. Dollars came from. It challenges credibility to attribute such considerable amounts to dollars left in the collection plates, in dollars,  by U.S. citizens, don't you think?.
It would seem that the true and full story is yet to appear.
Oh well!
Hugs!
Rosina


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