The carabinieri have identified the two people who damaged the columns of the Vasari Corridor last night with an inscription praising a German football team playing in the third league.
The two, on vacation in Florence, were tracked down by the carabinieri in an apartment that housed nine other people. They are all Germans and are now at the provincial headquarters of the carabinieri in Borgo Ognissanti for identification. One of the two individuals was still wearing the shirt he wore last night as he drew on the monument. Surveillance cameras captured it.
Spray cans of black paint were also seized in the house and some clothes were taken to compare them with those detectable from the images of the cameras.
Furthermore, after the photo-report, the fingerprints will be compared with traces found on the spray cans. Based on reports from the carabinieri, in the next few hours the prosecutor will open a file for aggravated damage, a crime which provides for imprisonment from six months to 3 years but, as things stand, not the adoption of a precautionary measure.
(Unioneonline/L)