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Police detain homeless man in relation to Venus fire

32-year-old suspected of arson, destroying cultural heritage

Redazione Ansa

(see related) (ANSA) - ROME, JUL 12 - Police detained a homeless man on Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of being behind the fire that completely destroyed contemporary Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's Venere degli Stracci (Venus of the Rags) installation in Naples' Piazza Municipio.
    The man, 32, faces possible charges of arson and destruction of cultural heritage after being identified using video surveillance footage and traced to a canteen on Via Marina.
    (ANSA).
   

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