American Is Charged With Stealing Terra-Cotta Warrior’s Thumb<br />FBI says a US man stole the thumb of a 2,200-year-old Chinese terracotta warrior statue being displayed at the Franklin Institute pic.twitter.com/ZwzRrSq8V2 Mr. Rohana,<br />24, was charged last week in Philadelphia with theft of an artwork from a museum, concealment of the artwork and interstate transportation of stolen property.<br />The museum has reviewed procedures and told security guards<br />that "any lapses are intolerable," the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center official told the Beijing Youth Daily.<br />"We call on the American side to severely punish the person who committed this destruction<br />and theft of mankind’s cultural heritage," the unidentified official told the Beijing Youth Daily, a Communist Party affiliated newspaper, on Sunday.<br />19, 2018<br />A man has been charged with theft after apparently breaking off the thumb of a terra-cotta<br />statue, valued at $4.5 million, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.<br />The statue was helpless, however, against a man in a green sweater<br />and a Phillies hat who, the authorities say, sneaked into a closed-off area during a party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in December and stole its thumb.<br />An official from the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center, which organizes the<br />display of the statues abroad, asked that the thief be given a tough penalty.
