掰断兵马俑手指的美国男子,判了
据美国媒体报道,当地时间6日,兵马俑在美国展出期间被掰断手指的案件,终于宣判!
曾于2017年涉嫌掰断并偷走兵马俑拇指的美国男子迈克尔·罗哈纳(Michael Rohana),被宣判获缓刑5年,罚款5000美元,外加100个小时的社区服务工作。
A Delaware man was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation after he broke off the finger of an ancient statue while inside a Philadelphia museum.
2017年12月21日,罗哈纳潜入费城富兰克林博物馆,折断并盗走一尊正在展出的中国兵马俑的拇指。虽然后续被盗拇指被找回,这一事件仍引起广泛关注。当时,中国陕西省文物交流中心与美国费城富兰克林科学博物馆合作,借出10个兵马俑在该馆展出。
据报道,罗哈纳在听证中向家人和中国政府致歉。他表示,“历经此事,我明白应对这些文物报以极大尊重,不该被毁损”。
Michael Rohana, 29, apologized to his family and the Chinese government, saying he would make no excuses for his drunken prank at the museum's 2017 ugly sweater Christmas party.
"Through all of this, I've earned a huge respect for these archaeological items," he told US District Judge Chad F Kenney during a hearing in federal court in Philadelphia. "They are not to be messed with, broken, or damaged."
联邦法院地区法官肯尼认可了罗哈纳的悔罪表现,并指出后者很幸运地避免了牢狱之灾,同时谴责道,“你在案件中的举止令人愤慨,坦白讲,令人作呕。” 法官表示,“全世界的人看了都会说,‘是啊,那些个美国人,对什么都不尊重。’”
But while Kenney credited Rohana for his contrition, the judge noted that he was lucky he wasn't facing jail time. "Your conduct in this case was absolutely outrageous — quite frankly, sickening," he said. "Everybody around the world looks at this and says, 'Yep, that's those Americans. No respect for nothing.'"
图源:央视新闻
据了解,受损的兵俑是当时数千个中少有的被完全复原的兵俑之一,保价高达450万美元。被损坏的兵马俑拇指是在出土时断裂的,经修复后赴美参展,掰断处正是修复处。展览中方举办单位陕西省文物交流中心随后发声,表示在40多年来超过260次的文物外展中,如此恶性的事件真是“前所未有”。
Known as "The Cavalryman", the warrior is worth $4.5 million. The Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center, which loaned 10 of the terra-cotta sculptures to the American museum, said it was the first such incident in more than four decades of organizing overseas exhibitions.
本案的助理检察官牛顿则表示,罗哈纳或许无意引发国际事件,但他的行为已对国际文化交流造成“永久损害”。
During Wednesday's sentencing, Assistant US Attorney KT Newton acknowledged Rohana might not have set out to spark an international incident, but his actions caused permanent damage to "the cultural exchange between nations".
牛顿补充道,为此,秦始皇陵博物馆花费超过2.5万美元来修复损害,而相关兵马俑也不再展出。
It cost the Qin Shi Huang Imperial Mausoleum Museum more than $25,000 to repair the statue, she said, and The Cavalryman has since been pulled from public exhibition.
报道称,在陕西历史博物馆致本案法官的信中写道:罗哈纳此举不仅造成对兵马俑本身不可逆的损害,也危害人类文明的传承。
"Michael Rohana's actions not only caused irreversible damages to the terra-cotta warrior itself, but also endangered the inheritance of human civilization," administrators at the Shaanxi History Museum in China wrote in a letter to the judge.
irreversible damages 不可逆的损伤
据美媒此前报道,今年4月,罗哈纳承认了自己当年的行为。由于罗哈纳与检方达成认罪协议,检方撤销了刑期最高30年的“盗窃和藏匿博物馆文物”指控。取而代之的是,罗哈纳将承认“跨州贩运文物”罪名,这项罪名最高可判处两年监禁并处罚金2万美元。
而至于罗哈纳赔偿富兰克林博物馆、保险公司以及收藏兵马俑的中方博物馆金额数目,留待下次听证确定。
综合来源:中新网 观察者网 NBC 费城询问报
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