Four French tourists of North
African origin were cited by police at Pompeii Monday after
being found with fragments of non-frescoed wall material in
their backpacks at the ancient Roma site. They had picked up the
fragments, between two and three centimetres in length, from the
ground rather than detaching them from walls, officials said.
The four have been cited for aggravated theft. Officials said it
was impossible to say immediately where the fragments of stucco,
which did not have any particular value, had come from.
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