The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

“I admit with the deepest embarrassment that only after what regrettably happened, I learned of the antiquity of the monument,” the alleged perpetrator wrote in his letter to the prosecutor, his lawyer, Alexandro Maria Tirelli, told CNN. The tourist’s name is Ivan Dimitrov, his lawyer told CNN.

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    1 year ago

    The guy carved his real name into the facade, filmed himself doing it, and posted it to social media.

    This is what lawyers refer to as “res ipsa loquitur” or loosely translated to “the thing speaks for itself”. Let the video play in court and case closed.

    Got to love how these idiots just make it so easy. Hope the courts throw the book at him with maximum penalties.

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    That apology is so full of shit I can smell it from here. I hope the prosecutor sees right through it.

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      He’s looking at 5 years in prison. of course he’s gonna try to weasel out of it. I hope he goes to prison for the entire time. Desecrating a world monument is atrocious.

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    It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.

    For real tho who the fuck doesn’t know what the colosseum is?

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    If he didn’t know or if he did know and is now faking it, who the fuck cares? Charge his ass regardless. Not knowing is not a defense.

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    ~~Name sounds Russian. If so, it figures. A society that, as a whole, appears to have quite he distain for other nation’s monuments and culture. ~~ Also, for someone so apparently ignorant to some of modern humanity’s greatest and most famous windows to our ‘ancient’ past, they write very well. Assuming it wasn’t their solicitor who wrote it for them to sign, of course.

    And that would totally defeat the point of sending the letter.

    Edit: I am very wrong about the nationality of the ‘alleged’ vandal.

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    All they should need to do is prove that he went through third grade or whatever his local equivalent is to disprove that. Not to mention the fact that he paid for the tour and managed to get that far.

    I don’t know that this is something someone should go to prison for, because it’s not protecting anybody to put him in prison, but he should definitely pay for a very long time.

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    If he thought the building was unimportant enough that writing his dumbass name on it was nbd, what the fuck was doing wasting his time there in the first place? Why did he think all the other tourists were there?