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ROME, ITALY—A 42-year-old Russian tourist has been fined €20,000 and has received a suspended sentence for vandalizing the Colosseum. Italian authorities say that the man was using a sharp stone to carve a ten-inch-tall letter “K” into a ground-floor brick wall when he was apprehended by a guard and arrested. Rome’s archaeology superintendent Mariarosaria Barbera told Wanted in Rome that the damage is “significant” and that it removed part of the surface of the wall, “compromising the conservation and image” of the monument. The man was the fifth foreign tourist caught damaging the Colosseum this year.
