The tourist’s Italian lawyer, Alexandro Maria Tirelli, hopes that his client will be able to avoid the harshest punishment thanks to the extensive letter of apology. “This boy is the prototype of the foreigner who lightly believes that everything is allowed in Italy, even the kind of act that would be severely punished in his own country,” he says.
A Russian tourist who also scratched something into the wall of the Colosseum a few years ago was fined 20,000 euros, according to the Belga news agency.