Published in El País. remembered the Perez-Reverte novel :
ZV, 47, Hungarian, noted in a road map libraries thought "visit", a journey that began in northern Spain, and according which lacked go thirty cities before moving to Portugal , Where he planned to stop in Lisbon, Coimbra and Oporto-, France and Italy, as reported by the Guardia Civil. Previous stops on this route had been six libraries Soria, Toledo, Valladolid, Logroño and Pamplona, \u200b\u200bwhich was stolen in the past five months 67 maps and treatises on geography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, among which are several Ptolemies.
All the stolen documents were found in folders in a hotel room in Pamplona where ZV was arrested last Friday. The detainee, who has no criminal record and was involved in the sale of used vehicles in the Dominican Republic, a country where he resided, has assured Civil Guard that his intention was to sell the maps, but wanted them for his personal collection. He also said he had begun this activity when, knowing the theft of ten maps Ptolemies in the National Library in August 2007, said that if one had already committed this crime, "why was not going to do it."
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