The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

“I admit with the deepest embarrassment that only after what regrettably happened, I learned of the antiquity of the monument,” the alleged perpetrator wrote in his letter to the prosecutor, his lawyer, Alexandro Maria Tirelli, told CNN. The tourist’s name is Ivan Dimitrov, his lawyer told CNN.

  • Drusas@kbin.socialEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    All they should need to do is prove that he went through third grade or whatever his local equivalent is to disprove that. Not to mention the fact that he paid for the tour and managed to get that far.

    I don’t know that this is something someone should go to prison for, because it’s not protecting anybody to put him in prison, but he should definitely pay for a very long time.