Tem um nome esquisito, mas não sou eu

Sobre um colega nosso iraniano, que tive a infelicidade de conhecer em Teerão há uns anos, dizem na última newsletter da British:
"Mr Farhad Hakimzadeh, a former British Library Reader, is due to appear at Wood Green Court today (Friday 21 November). Hakimzadeh has pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft from the Library, and asked for further charges to be taken into account. He has also admitted theft from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Sentencing in this case is expected later today and you may have seen coverage of the case in this morning's press.
Hakimzadeh used considerable skill, deceit and determination to steal leaves, plates and maps from collection items. In many instances his thefts were initially difficult to detect. The items he mutilated are mainly 16th, 17th and 18th century items, with a lesser number of 19th and a few 20th century items. The predominant subject area is the West European engagement with Mesopotamia, Persia and the Mogul [Mughal] empire (roughly the area from modern Syria to Bangladesh), and western travel and colonisation / exploration.
Readers should be assured that theft from the British Library is an extremely rare occurrence. As Readers will appreciate, we are a library, not a museum. We are committed to making our collections available in the interests of scholarship and research, and to do this an element of trust is necessary. Hakimzadeh fundamentally betrayed this trust."
O caso já está na imprensa, claro. Aqui vai a história inteira. A mim faz-me lembrar aquele ditado com que nos angustiavam na faculdade, dizendo que a arqueologia era uma ciência que lia o livro da História de trás para a frente enquanto ia arrancando as páginas. Por isso é que desisti.