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Monday, September 5, 2011
Rome monuments attacked by vandals
Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome.
In the first attack, a man was caught on security cameras chipping two pieces off a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona.
Hours later tourists watched as a man threw a rock at the famous Trevi Fountain in the centre of the city.
Police then said they caught an American student scaling a wall of the Colosseum to chip off pieces of marble.
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