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Tourists deface 460-year-old Vasari Corridor in latest vandalism against Italian landmarks
NY Post ^ | 08/24/2023 | Ronny Reyes

Posted on 08/24/2023 11:51:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The vandals have sacked Italy again this year.

Two German tourists spray painted slogans for a Munich soccer team onto the side of a 460-year-old landmark in Florence cops said — in the latest incident in which foreign troublemakers defaced an Italian cultural treasure.

The exterior of the stunning riverside Vasari Corridor — which connects to the city’s famous Uffizi Galleries — suffered $10,800 in damages from the graffiti attack, Italy’s Carabinieri military police said.

Police soon IDed the perpetrators as being among a group of 11 students staying at a local Airbnb — and took the vandalism so seriously that they raided the location and found two cans of black spray paint and paint-stained clothes. Two of the tourists were arrested.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: corridor; italian; tourists; vasari
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Nobody cares about anything any more
1 posted on 08/24/2023 11:51:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bring back flogging !


2 posted on 08/24/2023 11:55:32 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Paint them black and throw them into a stadium of Italian soccer fans.


3 posted on 08/24/2023 11:57:32 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most all of Europe is a museum.

They should bulldoze it and build new stuff..................


4 posted on 08/24/2023 11:59:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

EuroTrash


5 posted on 08/24/2023 11:59:57 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I care.

I hope they spend some time in an Italian jail.

Punks.

6 posted on 08/24/2023 12:00:07 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Reverend Wright

Singapore has a good system - caning.

A few whips on their bare butt. Keeps ‘em out of jail and provides some public humiliation to prevent others from doing same

Oh. I’m sorry. I forgot. We’re all progressives now


7 posted on 08/24/2023 12:02:41 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Reverend Wright

AMEN!


8 posted on 08/24/2023 12:04:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PGR88

Singapore has a good system - caning. A few whips on their bare butt. Keeps ‘em out of jail and provides some public humiliation to prevent others from doing same


From what I’ve read, we’re talking a few minutes of really terrible pain, a few days of pretty bad pain, a week or two to finally get over it, a lifetime memory and a big incentive not to repeat the stupidity.

Maybe better and more humane than being locked up for months with a bunch of criminals.


9 posted on 08/24/2023 12:09:57 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A few executions, and this will stop.


10 posted on 08/24/2023 12:15:06 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Tie each of them to a column and make them clean off the paint with a toothbrush and whatever won’t further damage the surface. Add a fine and the expenses of a supervisor. Repeat as needed.

Make the punishment practical for Italy and expensive for the perps.


11 posted on 08/24/2023 12:19:04 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clearly this is not a drunken whim, but a premeditated act,’’ Schmidt said in a statement. “Enough with symbolic punishments and imaginative extenuating circumstances. We need the hard fist of the law.’’

The “hard fist of the law” would solve 80% of the criminality were facing. It’s the only way


12 posted on 08/24/2023 12:19:12 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: hanamizu

“From what I’ve read, we’re talking a few minutes of really terrible pain, ”

I remember the video of the guy caned for graffiti in Singapore. They had some martial arts dude who KNEW how to swing a stick. ‘Really terrible pain’ looked like an understatement!


13 posted on 08/24/2023 12:22:14 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: tet68
"Paint them black and throw them into a stadium of Italian soccer fans."

Open up the Colosseum in Rome again for gladiator events. Put these monument defacers unarmed, in the ring against lions, tigers and bears, then sweep up their remains.

14 posted on 08/24/2023 12:23:10 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: hanamizu

Weird Al Yankovic had some fun with the Singapore vandal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c


15 posted on 08/24/2023 12:23:49 PM PDT by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)
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To: skr

Tie each of them to a column and make them clean off the paint with a toothbrush and whatever won’t further damage the surface. Add a fine and the expenses of a supervisor. Repeat as needed.

Make the punishment practical for Italy and expensive for the perps.

This..
Direct repair of damages by perps, supervised. wearing some sort of penitent clothing. And keep them housed in a prison until complete.


16 posted on 08/24/2023 12:27:58 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Humiliate them publicly, fine them heavily, jail them for as long as you can under the law, and declare them persona non grata in Italy for the future.


17 posted on 08/24/2023 12:33:18 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
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To: Red Badger

You forget that a large portion of Europe was leveled 78-84 years ago.


18 posted on 08/24/2023 12:38:48 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: MCF

Yes, but the Allies tried to avoid the really old stuff.................


19 posted on 08/24/2023 12:39:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: bk1000

‘Really terrible pain’ looked like an understatement!


I have no doubt. But perhaps the sort of thing that would make one not want to be a repeat offender.


20 posted on 08/24/2023 1:01:54 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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