意大利警方11月14日逮捕了4名罗马马路清洁工，因为他们试图将当地著名旅游景点许愿池内的大量硬币据为己有。

    据路透社11月15日报道，每天，数千名来自世界各地的游客走到许愿泉旁，背对着建于文艺复兴时期的许愿池，将硬币扔近其浅浅的水中。传说此举可以确保这些人再次回到罗马。每隔一两天的时间，水池内累积的硬币金额便可达数百欧元，这些钱通常由当地一家清洁公司全部打捞上来，其中的一半会被转交给一家名叫博爱的罗马天主教慈善机构。而在最近一段时间里，该慈善机构的工作人员发现其所收到的硬币数额出现了急剧的下降，他们最终选择了报警。 　

    警方将4名清洁工嫌犯抓获时，他们正试图偷走许愿池内价值约为1200欧元的硬币。据警方估计，这4人在被捕前的数周内已经偷走了高达11万欧元的硬币。

    报道说，其实这4个人也并不是第一批试图从许愿池内非法敛财的人。当地警方早在2002年便逮捕了一名自封为火枪手达达尼昂的无家可归者，此人依靠每天黎明前对该旅游景点的“突袭”，在一个月内就“赚”到了12000欧元。

    Italian police arrested four street cleaners Monday as they tried to pocket hundreds of euros scooped from Rome's famed Fountain of Trevi.

    Each day, thousands of tourists stand with their backs to the Renaissance masterpiece and throw coins over their shoulders into its shallow basin in a tradition which is supposed to ensure they return to Rome.

    The money, which adds up to several hundred euros a day or more, is regularly swept out by a cleaning firm with half of the proceeds handed over to Roman Catholic charity Caritas.

    However, Caritas workers had noted a sharp decline in recent takings and alerted the police, who caught the quartet of cleaners Monday trying to walk off with some 1,200 euros.

    A police official estimated they might have stolen as much as 110,000 euros in recent weeks before being stopped.

    The quartet were not the first to try to cash in on the Trevi Fountain. In 2002 police arrested a homeless man, dubbed d'Artagnan, who made up to 12,000 euros a month with his pre-dawn raids on the tourist attraction.