The Rome public prosecutor's office
is set to request the indictment of a 27-year-old tourist who
carved his name and that of his girlfriend into Rome's Colosseum
using a set of keys last month, sources said on Monday.
Ivan Dimitrov, who is of Bulgarian origin but resident in
England, faces charges of defacing cultural or landscape
heritage, with a possible a sentence of two to five years in
prison.
He was identified after the Colosseum Park Authority was alerted
to the incident by a video, allegedly filmed by the pair and
posted on social media, and notified police.
There have since been two further acts of vandalism against the
2,000-year-old monument.
Rome Carabinieri police on Saturday cited a 17-year-old German
student caught carving something into a wall on the ground floor
of the Flavian amphitheatre.
Previously a 17-year-old Swiss girl was nabbed after being
filmed scratching her initials into a stone at the ancient
arena.
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