Baby Jesus snatchers strike again

Stolen twice in as many years

Mary and Joseph 'stare' at the vacant manger after the image of Baby Jesus was stolen from a roadside crib on Manwel Dimech Bridge for the second time in as many years.

A spokesman for Environmental Landscape Consortium, which put up the crib, said that it was during a routine inspection on Sunday that the loss was noted.

The inspections started after last year's incidents when a Bambin in Floriana and a statue of Mary on Manwel Dimech Bridge disappeared a few days before Christmas. They were not recovered.

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