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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Danielle Kate Wroe

Brit filmed carving names into Colosseum wall says he had no idea how old it was

When you visit a place of ancient beauty, you know that you're there to look and not touch - it's something engrained in us from a young age. But one man, who "didn't know" the Colosseum wall in Rome, Italy, was an "old monument" decided to carve his, and his partner's name into it - causing public outrage.

Fitness instructor Ivan Dimitrov, 27, was caught red-handed by an American tourist, who filmed the ordeal, as he scrawled his and 33-year-old Hayley Bracey's name into the wall.

After being caught and seeing the reaction, Ivan felt compelled to write an apology note, but it's been slammed by authorities, who have referred to it as "nonsense."

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