Scooby Don’t: The moment a migrant tried to blend in with a nativity scene to evade police (Picture: CEN)
A migrant on the run from police tried to disguise himself in a Christmas nativity scene – as the fourth of the three wise men.
The wanted man was being chased in the town of Galatone, southern Italy, when he tried to trick officers into thinking he was a part of the life-size nativity scene.
The unnamed 38-year-old, from Ghana, was fleeing police after a conviction for assault and resisting arrest.
The migrant attempted to blend in, raising his arms and holding still as he tried to pull off the hilarious, quick-thinking move of becoming a human statue worthy of a baddie from Scooby Doo.
But he was rumbled when the town’s mayor spotted him after seeing small movements in the corner of his eye.
The nativity scene in the town of Galatone in southern Italy (Picture: CEN)
Mayor Flavio Filoni said: ‘While I was walking past the nativity scene, which set up by our tourism office, I noticed a figure which I initially though was part of the scene.
‘But then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the figure moving.’
The man was then promptly arrested by police and remanded in custody in Lecce, a nearby city, where he will spend the rest of his sentence.
He had previously been sentenced to nine months and 15 days by a court in Bologna.
Filoni thanked police officers for their ‘swift’ recovery of the wanted man.
He said: ‘Thanks to the swift intervention of our local police, the state police and the Carabinieri, it was possible to identify this person, who it turned out was a wanted fugitive.
‘A big thank you to all men and women who uphold our security with competence and dedication.’
It comes after a man ‘dressed as an elf’ was arrested in Liverpool this week.
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Merseyside Police officers stopped the man on Tuesday, December 9, on Church Street in the city centre after he made abusive comments towards them.
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It was discovered that he was a named suspect for an assault on Duke Street on Monday, November 17, where a woman was punched in the face and suffered injuries to her lip and nose.
Officers arrested a 55-year-old man from Liverpool on suspicion of assault.
He was taken to a police station in Merseyside and since been bailed with conditions.
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