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Man in Italy Throws 20 Gold Bars in the Trash by Mistake

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Moment of distraction sparks 'needle in a haystack' search through rubbish dump. A 57-year-old man in the southern Italian region of Puglia accidentally threw out 20 gold bars into the trash, sparking a high-stakes search through tons of rubbish. The story began in Torre Lapillo, a village of the seaside town Porto Cesareo, when the man mistook a tin container for rubbish, newspaper Corriere della Sera reports. The man, whose identity has been k…

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The case in Torre Lapillo in Lecce

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In Salento a man accidentally threw 20 gold bars. History comes from Torre Lapillo, a fraction of Porto Cesareo, where the 57-year-old threw a box that contained the bars, for an estimated total value between 120 and 130 thousand euros. As Sky Tg24 reports, the man, originally from the province of Brindisi, had accumulated the treasure by buying the bars regularly and keeping them in the container. In recent days the protagonist of history has d…

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An inattention that could cost dearly in Lecce. A 57-year-old man put in a tin box twenty gold bars, regularly purchased over the years,...

An Italian citizen was extremely lucky when he accidentally threw away a box containing 20 gold bars, worth a total of approximately 120,000 euros. When the man realized his mistake…More...

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Police in southern Italy have rescued a box containing gold bars from a waste sorting facility after a careless resident accidentally threw the treasure away with his household rubbish. The man went to a police station in Porto Cesareo, near Lecce, to report that a box containing 20 gold bars, worth a total of around €120,000, had gone missing. Officers quickly realised that it was no theft: they studied the man’s movements and examined security…

In Italy, a man mistakenly threw an old tin in the trash, in which he stored 20 gold bars. When it all ended, read ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1)

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ilmessaggero.it broke the news in on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.
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