A leading Swiss police chief has been arrested in southern Turkey on charges of trafficking antiquities, facing a hefty fine should he escape a prison term. Last Friday at around noon, as he was leaving Antalya to return to Switzerland at the end of his family vacation, the police chief of the Swiss canton of Valais Christian Varone was detained at the Antalya airport after the police found a valuable artifact in his family’s luggage.
Varone was detained at the airport by the police while his family has returned to Switzerland. Most Swiss newspapers have claimed that the artifact in question was merely a pebble with no material value, but experts and information from the Antalya Archeological Museum, however, suggest that the artifact is much more significant than the Swiss media have made it out to be and is, in fact, a crucial part of a monument taken from a nearby archeological site.
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It's a very old pebble! Millions of years old!
