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Rome piazza statue vandal held
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September 6, 2011, Tuesday
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POLICE said yesterday they had detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain.
The suspect was picked up during a routine patrol near Piazza Navona late on Sunday, a day after the vandalism, carabinieri officials told a press conference. Police noticed him because he was wearing the same white sneakers worn during the attack, images of which were captured by security camera footage.
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno urged no clemency for the suspect, saying Italy must protect its artistic heritage with an "exemplary punishment."
The footage showed the man climbing in the Moro Fountain on the southern end of Piazza Navona early on Saturday and repeatedly attacking the statue - one of four large faces at the edge of the fountain - with a large cobblestone and then walking away. The damage is on a 19th-century copy of the original Moro Fountain by 16th-century artist Giacomo della Porta. Bernini added the central figure in the 1600s.
Yesterday restoration work began to reattach the pieces.
Colonel Giuseppe Canio La Gala said the man had confessed to both the Piazza Navona attack and of throwing the rock at the Trevi Fountain a few hours later. He missed that target.
The suspect was picked up during a routine patrol near Piazza Navona late on Sunday, a day after the vandalism, carabinieri officials told a press conference. Police noticed him because he was wearing the same white sneakers worn during the attack, images of which were captured by security camera footage.
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno urged no clemency for the suspect, saying Italy must protect its artistic heritage with an "exemplary punishment."
The footage showed the man climbing in the Moro Fountain on the southern end of Piazza Navona early on Saturday and repeatedly attacking the statue - one of four large faces at the edge of the fountain - with a large cobblestone and then walking away. The damage is on a 19th-century copy of the original Moro Fountain by 16th-century artist Giacomo della Porta. Bernini added the central figure in the 1600s.
Yesterday restoration work began to reattach the pieces.
Colonel Giuseppe Canio La Gala said the man had confessed to both the Piazza Navona attack and of throwing the rock at the Trevi Fountain a few hours later. He missed that target.
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