故宮大盜石柏魁一審宣判有期徒刑13年

A Chinese farmer got 13-year jail term Monday for stealing art pieces from the Forbidden City last year, court authorities said. Shi Baikui, 27, was fined 13,000 yuan (2,059 U.S. dollars) and was deprived of his political rights for three years, according to the ruling announced by the Second Intermediate People's Court in Beijing Monday morning.

3月19日上午，備受公衆關注的“5·8”故宮失竊案一審宣判。依照中華人民共和國刑法，北京市第二中級人民法院宣判：判決石柏魁有期徒刑13年，剝奪政治權利3年，罰金1萬3千元。

Shi, from eastern Shandong Province, broke into the heavily guarded former home of Chinese emperors in the heart of Beijing, and stolen nine art pieces made of gold and jewels, on May 8, 2011, the court said in a statement.

2011年5月8日，故宮博物院發生竊案，香港兩依藏博物館在齋宮臨時展出的7件展品失竊。

While hastily escaping, Shi left behind five of the pieces in the Forbidden City's compound. Failing to immediately sell the treasures, he threw the other four pieces away the next day, the document said. Six pieces were recovered and the three missing were estimated to be worth 150,000 yuan (23,760 U.S. dollars) in total. Shi was apprehended by police at an Internet cafe in Beijing's Fengtai district 58 hours after the theft.

據兩依藏博物館館長王夏虹介紹，丟失展品爲金銀鑲嵌寶石的西式化妝盒，並稱“估計價值數千萬元”。案發58小時後，犯罪嫌疑人石柏魁在北京市豐臺區一家網吧被警方抓獲。該案件2012年2月17日開庭審理，一審現場，控辯雙方就“被盜展品價值幾何”“石柏魁盜竊是預謀盜竊還是臨時起意”“在故宮盜竊是否該從重量刑”等問題展開激辯。一審當時並未當庭宣判。