The mayor of Toledo decapitated an angel with his fireworks rocket.
A firework rocket lit by the Mayor of Toledo, Emiliano García-Page, during the fiesta in honour of the city’s patron, Virgen del Sagrario, decapitated one of the angels on the Puerta de los Reyes of the famous cathedral.
The Dean of the Cathedral, Juan Sánchez, had asked several times that the fireworks not be set off so close to the monument
Fortunately nobody was injured by the granite angel’s head which fell a distance of some five metres from the 15th century sculpture.
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