Prima Porta cemetery, the stolen flowers – BBC

Flower Thieves in front of the mortuary of the cemetery Prima Porta. Flowers that then the thieves resold for Marriages. A story that has the absurd discovery on Easter Sunday by police who arrested an Egyptian of 59 years and a Romanian of 23 caught stealing flowers that relatives of the dead still to bury supported on the Madonna statue in front of the mortuary of the cemetery of the via Flaminia.

The couple was followed by the Carabinieri investigators and then blocked with flowers in his hand. The two were arrested for aggravated theft in competition. There is a suspicion that they can be part of a gang specialized in this kind of theft. The two sold them all to flower shops that will not only supply the relatives of the deceased on a visit to Prima Porta but also the organizers or invited to weddings. Why investigations are continuing to reconstruct the activities of the two and any accomplices.

The Prima Porta

cemetery is often unfortunately ended on the city chronicles for repeated thefts occurred in many areas, including one dedicated to the children. Theft of items left by family members, metal crosses on gravestones and marbles, sacred statues. In particular, of all that is copper or iron, and then recycled. Better if bronze. For years, almost unheard, the relatives of the deceased are fighting a war against the thieves also made of messages left on the trees or within their own frames addressed to the heartless thieves, who do not stop even before the pain. And now the final insult, the stolen flowers even to those who has just been brought to the cemetery.