A female tourist was kicked out of Venice after she was caught taking pictures topless on a war memorial. The 30-year-old woman from the Czech Republic took off her clothes on Friday afternoon and threw her things on the monument, which honours Italy’s war heroes. She then went for a swim in the freezing lagoon and lay down next to a statue of a murdered female partisan to pose for pictures.
She was banned from Venice for 48 hours and fined $513 because she was caught smoking in public. He saw the woman and her two other friends on the monument, which is near the water. Mario Nason was walking with his son when he saw them.
For the women who died for freedom under fascism, there’s a bronze sculpture in the water and on a platform of bronze and concrete that looks like it’s in the water and is on land. It’s near the gardens of the Biennale. It’s one of the few statues of women in Italy.
It was a nice day, and we saw two people taking pictures. Then, “I saw this woman swimming without a care in the world,” Nason said on CNN.
“I thought she would be crazy because she might go swimming on a cold day.”
“However, then I saw that she was trying to get out of the water by climbing on top of the statue with just her bikini bottoms on.
Afterward, she bought it up again and went back into the water.
It was her boyfriend and another woman who had jumped over the barrier to get better pictures of her. They had been standing next to her clothes that she had left on the monument, just like you do when you go to the beach.
The girl, who has not been named, was taken into custody by police. They fined her €350 ($400) and gave her a delinquent conduct order and a 48-hour ban from the town, which comes with a €100 ($113) fine.
The girl took a quick dip in the icy water before posing topless for pictures at the war memorial. CNN has blurred some parts of this picture to protect the identities of the people in it.
By Matteo Nason.
How could this be an issue? The tourists kept asking, “How can this be an issue?” When Nason said that, people didn’t know what they were doing at all.
When you go to Rome, you jump into the Trevi Fountain and say, “What do you mean, you can’t do that?”
No matter, they haven’t killed anyone. Afterwards, when I see a fountain, I don’t want to jump in. In Paris, I don’t throw myself into the Seine. No, nothing would happen. It is common sense to think that way. It’s not like people would do these things anywhere else.
The tourist went for a swim in the lagoon, then sat down next to the statue of the slain partisan and took a picture.
Giacomo Cosua/NurPhoto is a Getty Images photographer.
A police spokesperson told CNN that, based on their report, the woman was lying on the monument, imitating the dead partisan for a picture.
“She wanted the statue to be in the picture,” they said. “I think about how she said sorry.”
Tourists behaving badly in Venice isn’t a new thing. So only once a week before, someone took off his clothes and jumped into the Grand Canal. He was never caught.
For breaking decorum rules, other people have been fined and forced to leave the town. For diving into the Grand Canal after having too much to drink, the Scottish tourist was told to leave last year. The person had been drinking at a party. Germans were kicked out of Italy in 2019 because they were making coffee on a camping range under the Rialto Bridge.
“Sitting in St. Mark’s Square with a slice of pizza, or making coffee, is a great thing to post on Facebook, but when 30 million people do the same thing, Venice turns into a beach or a campsite,” said Nason.
This is more than the private upset that some people have had about the sensitivity of the partisan monument. It goes far beyond that.” They most likely didn’t know that the statue of the woman lying down there was a dead partisan, but it was still there. However, it’s treating Venice as if it were on the beach.
