On October 5, he threw two marble busts to the ground in the Vatican Museums, damaging them
.
A 65-year-old American tourist
of Egyptian origin
risks ending up on trial for this affair .
The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigation into the
crime of "deterioration, disfigurement, soiling and illicit use of cultural or landscape assets
".
A case that provides for sentences of between two and five years in prison.
The man was blocked in the immediacy of the facts and justified his gesture with
ranting statements.
The Vatican Gendarmerie handed over the suspect to the Italian authorities "according to the provisions of ex art. 22 of the Lateran pacts".
In the charge the deputy
Nicola Maiorano
writes that the 65-year-old "destroyed two marble busts inside the Vatican Museums, making them voluntarily fall to the ground, causing significant damage, quantified at
15 thousand euros
".
