Incident comes just a few weeks after vacationers surfed on Grand Canal.

Venice police arrested a Belgian vacationer who stole a water taxi from the town’s Marco Polo airport and took it for a high-speed pleasure journey down the Grand Canal on Wednesday.

Mayor Luigi Brugnaro praised the officers for his or her “willpower and braveness” in apprehending the vacationer who drove the velocity boat in “a harmful manner” by way of the historic centre of the lagoon metropolis.

Police gave chase after they noticed the motoscafo travelling at full velocity throughout rush hour within the coronary heart of the town, in response to Italian information reviews.

Officers lower the boat off at San Trovaso, between the College of Ca ‘Foscari and L’Accademia, in a pincer motion utilizing a number of police boats.

Grazie ai nostri agenti della Polizia Locale che con determinazione e coraggio hanno fermato un turista che aveva rubato un taxi acqueo, sfrecciando in maniera pericolosa per #Venezia.

Non molliamo il controllo del nostro territorio. Bravi ragazzi! pic.twitter.com/SjFue94Zme

— Luigi Brugnaro (@LuigiBrugnaro) September 7, 2022

Nevertheless when police boarded the water taxi they discovered a Belgian vacationer aged 61 behind the wheel, not the proprietor of the car who usually operates a non-public transport service.

It’s unclear why the person – who now faces prison proceedings – determined to steal the taxi on the metropolis’s airport and head into city at full tilt.

The mayor of Venice has supplied dinner to whoever can determine the 2 “idiots” filmed browsing down the Grand Canal.pic.twitter.com/Ncf8mJvod7

— Needed in Rome (@wantedinrome) August 17, 2022

The incident, filmed by quite a few onlookers, happened in the course of the Venice Movie Pageant, simply weeks after two Australian vacationers surfed down the Grand Canal on motorised surf boards.

After the mayor supplied dinner to whoever might determine the “conceited idiots”, the vacationers have been tracked down and fined €1,500 every.

Police additionally confiscated the vacationers’ tools, valued at round €25,000, and expelled them from the town.