Spaniard fined for stealing Olympic torch in Italy

Spaniard fined for stealing Olympic torch in Italy
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By m.p. - Jan 25, 2006 - 11:14 PM

. Granada skier Mar�a Jos� Rienda will carry the Spanish flag at the Turin �06 Winter Olympics in February. Photo � EFE.

A Granada skier will carry the flag for the Spanish team at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics in February

A Spaniard has been fined 3,000 euros by a court in Northern Italy for trying to steal the Olympic torch.
He was one of a group of eight people who suddenly surrounded Italian athlete Eleonora Berlanda as she was carrying the torch through the town centre of Trent on Monday, ahead of the February Winter Olympics in Turin, and managed to take the torch from her from a few minutes.

Juan Antonio Fernándesz Sorrocho was arrested along with three other people, but only he and the Italian Daniele Benedetti were found guilty, as they were identified by a television recording of the event.
Both men had their prison sentences commuted to fines.

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