Stolen the Codex Calixtino of the Cathedral of Santiago

[Javier]

http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/portada/index.htm

 

[jabri]

Also in Holland in the news:
http://nos.nl/artikel/254341-kostbaar-manuscript-gestolen-uit-kathedraal.html


Jan Brilleman

 

[scikowski]

And in English...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... compostela

 

[ivar]

It seems like security was a bit relaxed... 5 security cameras, non which were pointed at the safe where the Coxed was stored... and El Pais also has a story today saying that it was not insured.

 

[Hedwig]

Who would do something like that? And for what purpose? You can't sell it to anybody, can you..

 

[ivar]

I have no idea.. don't think you can sell it, it is unique.

 

[ivar]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWFiWRMNQHM[/youtube]
Video from El Correo Gallego

..they also mention in this article that the key to the safe was in the lock... and that they really did not need to break anything to get to the Codex... just turn the key and open the door.

The question now is, how did they get into the room where the safe was stored. It seems like only 3 people had access to this room.

The whole thing a bit embarrassing really..

Sounds like the first chapter in a Dan Brown book... too bad it is not fiction.

Saludos,
Ivar

 

[William Marques]

Who would know the Codex was stored in that safe? Was the theft organised to steal the Codex or just an opportunistic theft by someone in the room? The first would suggest an inside job the second a cleaner or someone in a similar position with access to the room.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

How many were camped in Praza Obradoiro for several weeks? Any suspects there?

 

[grayland]

Maybe they should check on John Brierley...eliminating the competition?? :wink:

 

[Rebekah Scott]

I think it´s those shady Templar characters...

 

[sillydoll]

The 'Codex' might have been taken to avenge the Dean

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1257340 ... /venganza/

■Police believe that the twelfth-century book has not left Santiago.
■And that its removal was damage to the dean of the cathedral.
■The codex is invaluable, over one million euros.

It has been more than five months and Heritage Brigade National Police tightens the noose on the thief. Who could enter?, Was the vault door open? , because the locks were not forced, does anyone took the keys to the dean? Questions that the police have begun to respond.

"I am convinced that the codex is not out of Santiago de Compostela and that there is no organized group or any theft on behalf of a collector, " say the sources. The truth is that in these five months the police have had to deal with a complex investigation and full of devious tracks.

One line of research takes precedence over all others: the theft of the manuscript was to harm her guardian , the dean of the cathedral. Police have had to deal with the heavy infighting between the 22 canons who work in the cathedral and are under the orders of the dean. Two warring factions, one under the influence of Opus Dei and clearly contrary to the dean and to continue its work in the Cathedral (his post expires in 2014).

In the past, the dean (who has been in the cathedral since 1975), had to face slander about alleged sexual abuse that had neither head nor tail. Now there is another open confrontation because the canons, when they die, are buried in the cathedral, but there is no physical space to continue to do so and has not found a solution.

It was even spread the rumor that a Palestinian with a lot of money buying off one of the canons to steal one of the sacred books of Christianity. Police have investigated the 22 canons, two researchers, maintenance workers who know the room where the codex was kept and the cleaning staff and musicians of the cathedral.

Police have investigated the 22 canons, two researchers, maintenance workers and even one bizarre episode worthy of a thriller. He left the cathedral with a suspicious lump , two police officers followed him. They saw how he entered the chapel in Las Animas, less than a mile from the cathedral, and came out without the bulk.

The next day, Don Santiago, rhetoric of Las Animas, called police reporting that someone had returned a chest stolen two years ago . "They left it at the altar of Santa Rita, on his black robe. The hood kept the silver key of the tabernacle. They returned the box, but not the key," says this newspaper Don James, the rhetoric.

So far the thief has managed part of his purpose: damage to the dean, who in October stepped down from the cathedral archivist . He has already been replaced, but will continue as dean.