Incident comes after couple splashed round in Bernini fountain in Piazza Navona.
A person wearing swimming trunks climbed between the statues of Rome’s Trevi Fountain and dived into the waters of the Baroque monument earlier than being detained by police.
The bather, described by Italian media as a 40-year-old Roman, ignored orders to get out of the fountain, main a police officer to wade in and drag him out by the arm.
The incident came about simply earlier than 23.00 on Saturday night time in entrance of onlookers who filmed the unlawful dip on their telephones, with footage shared on the Welcome to favelas Instagram web page.
The person was reportedly fined €200 and handed a brief ban or ‘daspo‘ from returning to the UNESCO World Heritage web site, in keeping with Rome newspaper Il Messaggero.
Nevertheless two hours later the person returned to the fountain for a repeat efficiency, leaping in from the identical spot and being dragged out of the water a second time, by a unique police officer.
In April two Dutch vacationers had been fined €1,000 for swimming within the Trevi Fountain, whereas on Friday night time a person and a lady had been filmed splashing round in Bernini‘s Fountain of the 4 Rivers in Piazza Navona.
On Saturday Italian information retailers reported that the outside of the Pantheon had been vandalised with graffiti that learn “Aliens Exist“, written in English with blue spray paint.
The police investigation into the incident was hampered after it was found that town’s safety cameras guarding the positioning had lengthy ceased to be practical.
Rome’s tourism councillor Alessandro Onorato advised Leggo newspaper on Monday that “extra extreme penalties” had been required for many who injury town’s historic heritage.
“We’d like vacationers who respect our metropolis, who know learn how to expertise it with the respect and a spotlight it deserves” – Onorato stated – “For us the vacationer is sacred, however we’d like high quality tourism that respects town to the complete.”
