Florence, sets fire to the black drape on the David in Piazza della Signoria. He was arrested

Since March 6, the copy of Michelangelo’s David located in Florence ’s Piazza della Signoria has been covered as a sign of mourning and closeness to Ukraine with a black drape, at the behest of the mayor of the Tuscan capital, Dario Nardella.

This evening Vaclav Pisvejc, a serial defiler already known to law enforcement agencies and for hitting Marina Abramović in the head with a painting in 2018, climbed over the hedges on the steps of the arengarium of Palazzo Vecchio and burned the black drape; municipal police arrested him for arson.

In a note, the City of Florence said that around 8 p.m. a security guard and a municipal police officer realized what was happening and intervened, calling in other officers to put out the fire. Firefighters also later arrived on the scene. The city’s fine arts service has been alerted and will check for any damage.

In recent days the man had also daubed Francesco Vezzoli’s statue of the lion rampant in Piazza della Signoria with the colors of the flag of Ukraine and had been reported and had also replaced a street sign with one on which he had written “Putin.”

Florence, sets fire to the black drape on the David in Piazza della Signoria. He was arrested

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