Today
Mundicamino http://www.mundicamino.com/noticias.cfm reports the following update regarding the theft of the Codex Calixtinus from the Santiago de Compostela cathedral archive last July.
"Jueves - 31 mayo de 2012 / abc.es
Temen que el ladron del codice pueda quemarlo al verse acosado..."
Here is the Google translation into English of the report.
"Thursday - May 31, 2012 / abc.es
They fear the thief codice can burn to be harassed
The Dean of the Cathedral confirms that the text has not left Spain and is in the hands of any collector.
A point of first anniversary of his disappearance or the whereabouts of the Codex Calixtino remains an enigma to the agents in charge of the case, but a statement made yesterday by the Dean of the Cathedral of Santiago pave the way towards an early resolution of the investigation. And, as stated by the religious José María Díaz, "there are positive prospects, and very positive, in search of Liber Sancti." "That's all I can say" merely Diaz himself forward but not before that "the problem in a case like this is not to find the thief, but to find the object '.
For this, the police officers involved in the investigation take months to deploy all available scientific techniques and working your network of contacts they have in the Community. In his search for the moment, that valuable extract text has not crossed into abroad and not in the hands of any collector, one of the hypotheses that were considered in the days after the robbery.
With all the effort put into finding the Codex, Dean also said that a major concern of researchers is that the thief destroyed the copy to be cornered. "Police have experienced a thief runs located and harassed and there is a danger that can burn or no attention to the object," said Diaz, who once was asked to report the disappearance of the document in a police station in the Galician capital .
Looking back on that time, Diaz explained that at this moment to feel hopeful developments in the case. A state which he said "improved from the first night, when I had to go to the emergency room with 26 or 25 of tension, thinking die."
More of few words was the mayor of Santiago, Angel Currás, which avoided referring to the state it is research, arguing that "the experience of the police is that these things usually occur when it takes some time without speaking to them" . "In research of this type is important is not how but how to advance research concluded," resolved.
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One might facetiously summarize all this as "hope springs eternal" !
Margaret
