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LONDON (AP) – An American tourist from Louisiana helped a hammer-wielding thief who was able to travel to the Salisbury Cathedral, working in tandem with a church to escape the man from escaping.
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When the thief pushed past them, the 56-year-old IT expert gave chase into an outer courtyard. He grabbed the man's door and knocked away the hammer. A church employee tackled him and held him down.
"It was not me by myself," he said. "It was a group effort."
The Magna Carta, which was protected by two layers of thick glass, was not damaged.
Wiltshire Police said Saturday that a 45-year-old man has been freed on the lease until Nov. 20 as officers continue their investigation.
Salisbury Cathedral's Magna Carta is one of the four specimens of the 1215 that is king that is subject to the law. It is considered the founding document of English law and civil liberties and influenced the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
The document, Latin for "Great Charter" was short-lived. Despotic King John, who puts disgruntled barons and agrees to a list of basic rights, almost immediately went back to his word and asked the pope to annul it, plunging England into civil war. It was re-issued after the king's death.
Even so, its importance can not be underestimated, as it has inspired everyone from Mahatma Gandhi to Nelson Mandela. Matthew Delcambre, the director for the Center for Business & Information Technologies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said he had been taken aback by the attention of his efforts, but said that his story would not be exaggerated. the expense of others.
Of all those who played a part in corralling the thief, he credited his wife with Alexis first and foremost, since it was she who noticed the problem of being disabled. He played the role of the author, and said that the people who should get back to the Magna Carta.
"The heroes are helped by the police," he said. "I strictly was an assistant."
