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  • German tourists blamed for toppling 150-year-old Italian statue

    08/04/2023 2:08:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 03 Aug 2023
    ROME: A group of young German tourists posing for pictures to post on social media have been accused of toppling a valuable statue at a villa in northern Italy, the villa's manager said on Thursday (Aug 3). Two of the group climbed into a fountain to hug the work "Domina" by the artist Enrico Butti and another pushed it with a stick before the 1.7m statue crashed to the ground, Bruno Golferini, the manager of Villa Alceo in the town of Viggiu, said. Golferini said he had lodged a complaint with the local police against all 17 German tourists who...