Rome prosecutors to probe Bernini elephant statue damage

(ANSA) - Rome, November 15 - The Rome prosecutor's office is to open a probe into alleged damage of an artwork in relation to the vandalism of the statue of a little elephant by Baroque sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini on Sunday night, sources said Tuesday. Prosecutors are waiting to receive the necessary files and video surveillance footage from municipal police, who sequestered the piece of tusk found at the foot of the statue in Rome's Piazza della Minerva, near the Pantheon.