Milan, writers defaced the pediment of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan was vandalized by three writers: it happened on Monday, August 7 at around 10:30 p.m. The three, with their faces covered and dressed in black, climbed up to the pediment of the arch and daubed it with graffiti, tags in the jargon of writers, using spray cans of green, black and blue paint.

Officers from the Cathedral nucleus of the Local Police spotted the writers and, once the alarm was raised, went up to nab the perpetrators, but meanwhile the three had already escaped. Investigations are ongoing to identify the perpetrators, who are still unknown. The vandalism was filmed by people present in Cathedral Square and shared on social media. Firefighters, who used a ladder truck to climb up to assess the damage, and Digos officers also arrived at the scene.

“That’s enough now, evidently even imbecility spreads by contagion: the perpetrators of this useless madness should be identified as soon as possible and pay out of their own pockets for the work needed to restore the facade of Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele,” commented Regional Councillor for Culture Francesca Caruso. “We are talking about yet another episode of vandalism of historic places of our artistic and cultural heritage. It is an escalation that leaves no room for many interpretations: these are individuals who do not have the slightest respect for our history, with a degree of inculture that is now intolerable.” “Let those responsible be identified quickly,” he concluded. “Appropriate sanctions are needed not only for these individuals to understand the absurdity and bestiality of the act committed, but also to prevent further emulation.”

“They must pay every last penny! Last night around 10 p.m. morons vandalized the facade of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. Caught on camera, they escaped from the Galleria’s rooftop maze, but the police are on their trail. We will catch them. We cannot accept that our cities and our culture are continually defaced and vandalized. Maximum punishment,” Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy Region, wrote in a post.

“The damage to the pediment of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan with spray paint is a very serious act that must be punished with exemplary penalties,” said Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano. “Respect for public property and for our immense artistic-architectural treasures must increasingly assert itself as an absolute value, starting from schools and up to social tools that too often revive the exploits of real vandals who put at risk monuments and spaces open to the public of very high historical and cultural value.” “Soon,” the minister added, “after the approval that took place last month in the Senate, the eco-vandals bill will be voted on by the House and will finally become law so that we will have a stricter and more effective regulatory framework to counter the defacement of our cultural and landscape heritage.”

Milan, writers defaced the pediment of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

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