Briton facing death penalty in Iraq over pottery smuggling pleads with court ...Saudi Arabia

Author: Mon, 2022-05-16 15:15 LONDON: A retired British geologist facing an Iraqi court over allegations that he attempted to smuggle historical items has argued that he did not realize he was committing a crime. Jim Fitton, 66, took 12 stones and shards of broken pottery from an archaeological site in Eridu, southeastern Iraq. Fitton, who is facing the death penalty, appeared in the Baghdad court with German national Volker Waldmann. He told the three-judge panel that he did not act with criminal intent, adding that there were no signs warning him against taking the shards of pottery. Fitton told the judges that he “suspected” the items had ancient heritage, but that he “didn’t kno

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