A Swiss teen was filmed defacing Rome's ancient Colosseum just weeks after another tourist was caught carving his initials onto a wall.
have launched an investigation after a video surfaced of a teenage girl from Switzerland carving the letter"N" into a wall of the nearly 2,000-year-old structure, as was first reported by local media outlet ADN Kronos. A video of the incident was shared by ANSA, an Italian news agency. In the video, the girl is seen with her face blurred out as a crowd is heard clapping off-camera. that he had been showing a group around when someone directed his attention to the girl.
When he relayed to the girl’s parents what their daughter had done, they reportedly told him:"She’s just a little girl, she wasn’t doing anything wrong." The incident comes just weeks after a British tourist, 31-year-old Danailov Dimitrov, was caught defacing the ancient building in a video. A viral video showed Dimitrov carving a wall with the name of his fiancée:"Ivan+Haley 23.
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