A migrant on the run from police tried to disguise himself in a Christmas nativity scene – as the fourth of the three wise men.

The wanted man was being chased in the town of Galatone, southern Italy, when he tried to trick officers into thinking he was a part of the life-size nativity scene.

The unnamed 38-year-old, from Ghana, was fleeing police after a conviction for assault and resisting arrest.

The migrant attempted to blend in, raising his arms and holding still as he tried to pull off the hilarious, quick-thinking move of becoming a human statue worthy of a baddie from Scooby Doo.

But he was rumbled when the town’s mayor spotted him after seeing small movements in the corner of his eye. Mayor Flavio Filoni said: ‘While I was walking past the nativity scene, which set up by our t

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