Police in Italy have arrested a 37-year-old man for driving a rented Maserati Levante down Rome’s iconic Trinità dei Monti stairs, also referred to as the Spanish Steps.
CCTV footage captured the black Levante driving down the steps within the early hours of the morning. Evidently, the motive force of the Maserati didn’t actually suppose via the weird stunt because the SUV’s license plates have been on full show and native authorities have been in a position to shortly hint it again to a rental automobile firm primarily based on Milan.
Writing on Fb, the Polizia Roma Capitale stated they have been in a position to determine the motive force of the SUV thanks to assist from the rental automobile firm. He was arrested at Milan Malpensa Airport when making an attempt to return the automobile.
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Sky Information experiences that the Maserati brought about fractures to the sixteenth and twenty ninth steps of the right-hand staircase and that they needed to be briefly mounted to permit for continued pedestrian use. Rome’s heritage safety physique stated among the fragments have been reattached to the steps however added that additional work shall be required to correctly restore them.
“Widespread chippings, scratches, abrasions, and deposits on each ramps of the second stage, attributable to the identical occasion” have been found after the incident.
The person’s motivations behind the weird stunt stay unclear.
The Spanish Steps run from the Trinità dei Monti church on the prime to the Piazza di Spagna on the base. They have been constructed between 1723 and 1725 and have change into one among Italy’s hottest vacationer sights.