Egypt: they attempt to steal a 10-ton statue of Ramses with a crane. Three people arrested

On Tuesday, Jan. 10, Egyptian authorities announced that they had arrested three people who had tried to steal a ten-ton thousand-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II with the help of a crane.

In a statement, the prosecution said it had "ordered the detention of three defendants for four days pending investigation,“ accusing them of ”attempting to steal a pharaonic statue“ in the ancient southern city of Aswan. According to the statement, police said that ”three people were arrested in possession of hand digging tools and a crane," which they had used in an attempt to"lift the statue and dig it up."

TheAswan Antiquities Authority proved "the antiquity (of the statue) and attributed it to Ramses II, weighing about 10 tons."

The prosecutor’s office ordered police to “promptly investigate other people involved with the suspects in the crime.”

Egypt: they attempt to steal a 10-ton statue of Ramses with a crane. Three people arrested

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