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'Bone relic traffickers' arrested in Greece

Authorities in Greece have arrested a Swiss man and a Greek Orthodox deacon suspected of trafficking hundreds of bones to be sold as religious relics.

The Swiss man was detained at Thessaloniki airport when 197 bones and three skulls were found in his luggage.

He said he had received them from the deacon, who was found to be holding hundreds more bones when he was held north-east of Thessaloniki.

The bones that the 43-year-old Swiss man was carrying were sprayed with fragrance and had stickers marking them with the names of saints including St Mary Magdalene, St Andrew, St Basil and St Demetrius, police said.

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