Recently, the Siming District Court of Xiamen City, Fujian Province pronounced a verdict on a case of robbing ancient cultural relics. The defendant Li was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison and fined 15,000 yuan for the crime of robbing ancient cultural sites and theft.
Li is a cultural relic enthusiast. Since 2018, he has visited ancient kiln sites in Jimei, Haicang, Tong'an and other places in Xiamen many times, excavating and picking up ancient porcelain pieces. In January this year, he posted several videos on the short video platform about "digging treasures at ancient kiln sites", which attracted the attention of the public security organs.
After investigation, the police seized more than 100 porcelain shards and other items from Li's residence. After identification, these cultural relics include porcelain specimens from the Jimei Bowl Kiln of the Song Dynasty, the Jimei Horseshoe Shell Hat Kiln of the Ming Dynasty, and the ancient Dongyao kiln site in Haicang from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. During the review and prosecution stage, the procuratorate believed that Li The behavior was suspected of robbing ancient cultural relics and theft.
In order to find out the details of the case, the procuratorate guided the public security organs to further investigate and strengthen the evidence. It was finally confirmed that Li’s method of picking up and rummaging on the surface was found at the Longzaiwei kiln site. The cultural relics that originally belonged to the Wanyao kiln site were obtained. In addition, the prosecutor's office also found that Li's stealing and digging behaviors caused direct damage to the ancient kiln site involved in the case, putting the cultural heritage of the ancient kiln site at risk of damage.
Therefore, The procuratorial organ used a pre-litigation settlement method to ask Li to pay 5,000 yuan in compensation for future protection of ancient cultural sites, and publicly apologized in the media. At the same time, the procuratorial organ also transferred the clues discovered by the relevant departments that the relevant departments were lazy in performing their duties to the competent authority. The right procuratorial organs. At present, the recommended departments have adopted cultural relics protection measures such as setting up 24-hour monitoring equipment and establishing an inspection system for relevant ancient kiln sites.
Stealing cultural relics is a criminal act. For the protection, research and cultural inheritance of cultural relics will cause serious impact. The following are some of the hazards of stealing cultural relics:
1. Damage to cultural relics: During the theft process, cultural relics are easily damaged. These losses are often irreparable and will have a serious impact on historical research and cultural inheritance.
2. Loss of cultural relics: Theft of cultural relics will lead to the loss of cultural relics, making it impossible to protect and study cultural relics in situ, which brings great trouble to my country's cultural heritage protection work.
3. Damage to cultural values: Cultural relics are witnesses of history and are An important carrier of cultural inheritance. Stealing cultural relics is a blasphemy and destruction of historical culture and damages the cultural values of society.
4. Legal responsibility: In our country, stealing cultural relics is a crime and will be severely punished by law. According to " According to the provisions of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of my country, whoever steals cultural relics in a relatively large amount or has other serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined; if the amount is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, or a fine alone; A prison sentence of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and a fine.
Therefore, each of us should respect and protect cultural relics, and should not act to damage cultural relics or damage social and public interests because of temporary self-interest. At the same time, we should also strengthen the protection of cultural relics. Protection and management of cultural relics to prevent theft and damage of cultural relics.
