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A younger man from the Netherlands was reprimanded by Italian police after he allegedly vandalized a historic Roman wall whereas on vacation.
The incident came about in Herculaneum, an Historical Roman city that – like Pompeii – was lined in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
In a press launch revealed Monday, the Carabinieri, an Italian legislation enforcement company, defined that the vacationer “signed” the partitions of a domus within the city on Sunday evening. A domus was a townhouse-like residence for households in antiquity.
The 27-year-old was touring southern Italy on trip on the time.
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A 27-year-old Dutch man was arrested for allegedly vandalizing an Historical Roman wall. (Getty Photos / Carabinieri)
“A 27-year-old Dutchman, on vacation in Campania, determined to depart an indication of his passage, writing with a marker on the traditional stuccoes of a home torn from the ashes of Vesuvius,” the police’s assertion learn. “A signature, with a black marker, [was] indelible.”
“The person was instantly recognized and reported for injury and smearing of creative works.”
Italian Tradition Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano mentioned on Fb that the suspect was punished for “damaging and [the] oxidation of [the] art work.”
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The Dutch vacationer was on trip in Italy when he vandalized the traditional wall, police say. (Carabinieri/Handout through REUTERS)
“Any injury hurts our heritage, our magnificence and our id and that’s the reason it should be punished with the utmost firmness,” Sangiuliano mentioned in a press release obtained by Reuters.
This incident isn’t the primary time a vacationer in Italy was tempted to depart their mark. Final summer time, a British vacationer apologized for defacing the Colosseum in Rome.
Ivan Danailov Dimitrov, who was then 31, carved a wall along with his title and his fiancée’s title, writing: “Ivan+Haley 23.”
“I admit with deepest embarrassment that it was solely after what regrettably occurred that I discovered of the monument’s antiquity,” a letter he wrote learn. “[I apologize to] Italians and the complete world for the injury executed to a monument, which is, in reality, heritage of all humanity.”
A normal view exhibits the archaeological web site of Herculaneum in Ercolano, close to Naples, with the Mount Vesuvius volcano within the background, on October 23, 2019. (Getty Photos)
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Reuters contributed to this report.
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