A group of young people used a woodenart installation worth some 100,000 euros as the base for a barbecue earlier this week, damaging the work which is anexternal part of a museum near Modena housing works by artists of the caliber of Carrà, Guttuso and Pio Semeghini, local mediareported Thursday.
The youths piled rocks on the 'Sweet Home' installation by the artist Umberto Cavenago, which resembles a covered boat, and lit their barbecue at Suzzara before filming the stunt and leaving debris and rubbish behind when local police arrived.
Police are investigating possible charges of damaging the cultural heritage.
Political parties have filed an official question on the incident for the local mayor.
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