Police fear fountain’s marble could be stained
\nRome, October 19 – The waters of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain turned blood red on Friday after a man threw paint into the basin in a bizarre act of vandalism apparently inspired by the Futurists of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n
The man, reportedly wearing a beret and a light-coloured jacket, struck at around 4.30 pm and then disappeared into the crowd of tourists, leaving behind a pile of leaflets. The fountain, which re-uses the same water in a continuous cycle, soon started spurting red water into the air from its jets, providing an unprecedented spectacle which tourists immediately began photographing.<\/p>\n
Police said they were afraid that the marble of the fountain could be damaged by the continued contact with the red water.<\/p>\n
The leaflets found beside the fountain claimed that the colouring of the monument had been carried out by ‘FTM Futurist Action 2007’, a name which had never been heard of before.<\/p>\n
The leaflet said this group aimed to battle against “everything and everyone with a spirit of healthy violence” and to turn this “grey bourgeois society into a triumph of colour”.<\/p>\n
The baroque fountain is a tourist magnet and one of the symbols of Rome. Ever since actress Anita Ekberg frolicked in its waters in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film classic La Dolce Vita, there has been a succession of tourists who have tried to do the same thing.<\/p>\n
Until now no one had ever changed the colour of its waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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