Rome, man gets naked inside St. Peter's Basilica

Singular out-of-schedule yesterday afternoon in Rome inside St. Peter’s Basilica: a man in fact undressed and climbed, completely naked, onto the high altar, right under Bernini’s canopy, before being stopped by the security services. The man wanted to stage an extravagant protest against the war in Ukraine: on his back, in fact, he wore an inscription “Save children in Ukraine” (“Save children in Ukraine”). After the action, the man was handed over to the Italian police by the basilica’s security officers.

However, this is not the first time that a similar incident has happened in St. Peter’s Basilica: back in 2016, a 44-year-old Italian man of Brazilian descent was stopped by the Vatican gendarmerie after he stripped himself naked inside the basilica and began shouting out disheveled phrases.

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Rome, man gets naked inside St. Peter's Basilica

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