It took the firefighters and even a dozen policemen to remove a 37-year-old Australian who in the early afternoon showed up with a lot of luggage at Palazzo Reale in Milan, claiming to be the legitimate heir of the House of Savoy and therefore the owner of the building.

The man went up to the first floor, where the entrance to the exhibitions is located around 1 pm and asked how to reach Palazzo Marino, the seat of the Municipality, the current owner of the building, saying he was the heir to the Kingdom of Italy. He then returned an hour later, he placed his bags near the green pass station, refusing to leave "his home." The intervention of the firefighters who do firefighting in the building where a exhibition on Magic Realism and where the exhibition of the painter Joaquin Sorolla is under construction. The man refused to leave, also showing the documents he said he had sent to the Italian authorities, hindering the passage of visitors and staff who transported Sorolla's works .

The Police Headquarters were then alerted with two officials who, given the Australian's intentions not to move, asked for the support of a dozen agents who identified and escorted him outside.

The story caused a little worry but also a smile to those who dealt with the case, with someone who also remembered the scene from "Tototruffa '62" in which Totò had started to sell the Trevi fountain as an official cavalier Antonio Trevi to a tourist.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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