Tourist held over Easter Island ear
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The authorities on Easter Island have detained a Finnish tourist on suspicion of trying to steal an earlobe of one of the world-famous moai stone statues, BBC reported.
Police on the Pacific island, which is an overseas territory of Chile, were quoted saying that a woman had seen him rip off the earlobe, which then fell and broke into pieces.
The tourist, Marko Kulju, could face seven years in prison and a fine if convicted under laws protecting national monuments, the report said.
The statues of Polynesian ancestors are believed to be up to 1,000 years old.
The island’s Rapa Nui National Park, in which the moai are situated, became a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1995.
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