Carabinieri police said Tuesday that
they have tracked down the Austrian tourist who damaged a
sculpture by Antonio Canova at a museum near Treviso at the
weekend.
The police managed to track the 50-year-old man down after
studying video surveillance that captured what happened.
The man lay down besides Canova's Paolina Borghese statue at the
Possagno Gipsoteca museum, taking photos of himself, on
Saturday.
As he got up, he slipped and damaged the artwork.
He allegedly walked off without saying anything after realizing
what he had done.
The man has admitted to this and said he is willing to pay
damages, sources said.
The Carabinieri first managed to trace the woman who booked the
tickets for the group the man was part of, thanks to the online
registration required as part of COVID-19 measures.
That woman turned out to be the culprit's wife.
The case has been forwarded to criminal prosecutors in Treviso.
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