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Moment posing tourist snap toes off 19th century statue in Italy

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RQon_YwCnp_LbPtEwW65w?sub_confirmation=1   This is the moment a tourist snapped the toes off a 200-year-old statue while posing for a photograph in a northern Italian museum.   Surveillance footage shows a tourist lay beside an 1804 sculpture by Antonio Canova at the Gypsotheca Museum in Possagno, Italy on July 31.   When he "sprawled over the statue" he broke the toes off the art work, police told CNN. The 50-year-old man fled the museum after damaging the statue.   Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/italy-statue-posing-tourist-snap-toes-a4516886.html