Italian Mafia burned masterpiece by Caravaggio

[Евгений]

One of the brilliant paintings by Caravaggio, Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence, "the lost 40 years ago, destroyed the mob. That the court admitted a former Mafia hitman Gaspare Spatutstso, wrote The Times.
It is known that the picture painted by the master 400 years ago, was stolen from the chapel of St. Lawrence in Palermo in 1969. Since neither the police nor scientists, nor art lovers could not find out anything about the fate of the canvas. However Spatutstso, convicted in 1997 and became a year ago, a police informant, admitted that even now burned in the 80's.
This killer had learned from his boss Filippo Graviano, sitting in jail in 1999. Graviano, who together with his brother Giuseppe is headed by one of the most powerful clans Cosa Nostra, said that the stolen painting was given to the preservation of the family Pullara. Pullara had a masterpiece worth 20 million pounds (about 32.5 million dollars) in a barn on his farm, where his izgryzli rats and pigs. So the pitiful remnants of the picture, it was decided to burn.
Why it took the Mafia steal the picture, it is still unclear. Police believe that now it was impossible to sell on the open market, which means it was stolen specifically for some private collector. Earlier heroin dealer, Francesco Marino manna, confessed that participated in the theft of paintings by Caravaggio, said that some buyer wept when he saw the canvas, torn from the frame