After the Colosseum in Rome and the 19th-century statue in Viggiù, it’s the turn of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Police arrested a 19-year-old French tourist this morning as she cut a seventh ring column with a sharp object.

Yet another episode of vandalism to Italy’s artistic heritage. After the scars at the Colosseum in Rome, this time, the police intervened to stop a young 19-year-old French tourist while she was damaging the Tower of Pisa. With a sharp object, she was carving a heart with two letters inside in one of the columns of the seventh ring using a serpentine bracelet as a solid tool to scratch the stone.

The agents intercepted her by intervening at the request of an employee of the Primaziale who had noticed that the girl was carving a heart with two letters inside, using a serpentine bracelet as a sharp tool to scratch the stone.

The 19-year-old was accompanied to the police station and admitted her responsibilities by explaining to the police officers that she had engraved the initials of her name and that of her boyfriend, surrounded by a heart. The police reported her for aggravated damage to the national archaeological, historical and artistic heritage.

With a serpentine bracelet, she was carving a heart with two letters inside on a column of the seventh ring of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tourist, a 19-year-old French woman intent on defacing the symbolic monument of the city, was noticed by a supervisor of the Opera Primaziale.

The State Police intervened and accompanied the tourist to the police station. Here the woman admitted her responsibilities, reporting to the police officers that she had engraved the initial of her name and that of her boyfriend inside the little heart.

After the photo-signalling ritual, she was reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of aggravated damage to the national archaeological, historical and artistic heritage.