US EditionFugitive in Italy arrested after hiding in nativity scene as fake statue
The 38-year-old fugitive was found after mayor noticed movement in the Nativity scene; he had evaded arrest following a sentence for assault and resisting officials.
- Galatone Mayor Flavio Filoni spotted the unnamed 38-year-old man from Ghana hiding in the life-size Nativity at Piazza Santissimo Crocifisso, and local police, state police and the Carabinieri arrested him.
- Facing a nine months and 15 days sentence, the 38-year-old man from Ghana had been sentenced for resisting a public official and aggravated assault and went missing after sentencing in Bologna court.
- Attempting to disguise himself, he posed as a statue and reportedly used the fourth of the three wise men tactic by raising his arms and holding still, then resisted arrest and claimed the Nativity was his home, reports from local outlets describe.
- The man was remanded in custody in Lecce to serve his sentence, and Flavio Filoni, Mayor of Galatone, thanked officers from Galatone and nearby Nardò for their work.
- In a town of around 15,400 people in Puglia's Salento region, the odd tactic of posing as a nativity statue attracted coverage from Euronews, ITV News, and The Times.
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Migrant from Ghana hid in Nativity scene to avoid police, mayor says
A bizarre scene unfolded in a small town in southern Italy when the mayor said that he noticed that one of the "three wise men" figures in the public Nativity scene appeared to be moving.Galatone Mayor Flavio Filoni wrote about the incident in a post on Facebook on Dec. 10. He says that he was admiring the Nativity scene set up by the town's tourism office when he made the startling discovery.Rather than a wise man, the man was a foolish crimina…
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stationgossip.comNOT THE ONION: Illegal Migrant Fugitive Busted Trying to Evade Capture by Hiding in Italian Nativity Scene Posed as One of the Three Wise Men
In a bizarre attempt to avoid arrest, a 38-year-old Ghanaian illegal migrant fugitive was busted in southern Italy after attempting to blend into a life-size Christmas Nativity scene by posing as one of the Three Wise Men.
Migrant fugitive arrested after he was caught pretending to be statue in nativity scene
A migrant wanted by police attempted to avoid being caught by disguising himself as one of the Three Wise Men in a nativity display.The 38-year-old, from Ghana, was on the run from authorities when he chose the festive scene in the small Italian town of Galatone in the southern region of Puglia as his hiding spot.The man had been sentenced to nine months and 15 days in Bologna and was evading police following a conviction for assault and resisti…
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