(ANSA) - ROME, APR 11 - The eco-warriors who de face Italy's
cultural heritage must assume responsibility and pay for their
actions, facing the fines set out in a new government bill,
Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said after the government
approved a crackdown on their activities Tuesday.
"Attacks on monuments and artistic sites cause economic damage
to the community. Cleaning up requires the intervention of
highly specialised personnel and the use of very expensive
machinery. Those who carry out these acts must also assume
financial responsibility" said Sangiuliano, on the sidelines of
a cabinet meeting that approved the bill he had proposed
entitled 'Sanctioning provisions on the destruction, dispersal,
deterioration, disfigurement, defacement and illegal use of
cultural or landscape heritage." (ANSA).
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