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.
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A few public whippings would probably cut down on that.
Think they kind of tried that back in the 40s...
They can toss the key as far as I’m concerned.
I have very little tolerance for people who destroy property
hundreds of years old. Thousands? Body parts start missing!
Even the retreating German Army spared some of Florence’s treasures, Under orders from Hitler eg to not blow up the Ponte Vecchio as they retreated northward. Too bad these soccer hooligans are less civilized than their forebears.
The vandals have sacked Italy again this year.
Props for a good opening line.
I’ve been to Florence; the gardens, the Uffizi Museum, Duomo, the Tower. We bought the museum pass, did the hightlights, and then hit some of the little churches later. Had some of the best Gelato of my life near the river.
I loved it as much as I did Rome.
I’m with you. After a serious beat down, toss these punks in jail.
Water cannons. I like water cannons.
For what it is worth, graffiti has been a part of Italy for 2000+ years. Go to Pompeii or the Napoli Archeological Museum and you will find evidence of graffiti from the Roman Empire. Napoli has graffiti from the BC Greek occupation. The Vatican Museum (Raphael Room) has carvings in the wall from the Reformation that simply state “Martin Luther.”
To hell with that jail crap, just kill’em like the Roman Legionnaires did to vandals 1500 years ago!
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