Two animal rightists on Thursday
stained the famed fountain in Rome's central Palazzo del Popolo
with red, orange and yellow paint in a campaign to end the use
of animals in circuses.
The man and woman unfurled a banner saying "Enough to animals in
circuses".
They poured the paint over the base of the fountain's obelisk
and on its four lion statues.
Police said they would be cited for damaging cultural heritage,
a crime for which the government recently set fines of up to
60,000 euros in the wake of many similar stunts by climate
activists.
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