Incident at world heritage site comes fortnight after another tourist drove a Maserati down the steps
An American tourist has caused €25,000 worth of damage after hurling her electric scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps.
A few days before, a 39-year-old Argentinian man was charged with breaking strict no-fly zone rules after crashing a drone into the roof of a prominent monument in central Rome.He had been flying his drone in Piazza Venezia when he lost control of the device and sent it crashing into the roof of Palazzo Venezia, a 15th-century building from where the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini delivered some of his most famous speeches.
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