More graffiti. Charles Bridge in Prague has once again become the target of a vandal attack
“Since Tuesday, we have been spraying Charles Bridge on suspicion of committing the crime of damaging another’s property. The perpetrator faces up to three years in prison if caught and convicted,” police spokeswoman Violeta Siřišťová told Deník.
This is not the first graffiti on Charles Bridge that the police have to deal with. In October, a 17-year-old boy and a girl younger a year confessed to the police about counting a popular cultural monument. On July 9, blue inscriptions in English appeared on the bridge, on the right side of the railing and the pedestal of the statue towards Prague Castle from about the middle of the bridge. Lettering restorer. According to ČTK, words such as “hate you”, “love” or “sorry” appeared on the cultural monument and were sprayed with indelible blue paint. The spray also appeared on the lamp.
In July 2019, one of the pillars of the bridge was destroyed by German tourists and the case was condemned. Benjamin Wittig, who was the perpetrator of vandalism with his brother Niclas Steiger two years ago, appealed to the Supreme Court in Brno this year. He does not agree with the annual suspended sentence, a fine of one hundred thousand crowns and deportation for five years. According to Wittig, the inscription was sprayed only by a brother who confessed the wine, saying that the Germans did not know what the monument was.
Graffiti then overnight on July 28 professional professional cleaner Miloslav Cerny using hot water and steam. The mayor of the capital, Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates), then met with Černý, who had served 12 years in prison for double murder, and criticized the authorities’ actions, and the restoration work was to last until mid-August. On the contrary, the conservationists were concerned that the Black Intervention would not damage the masonry of Charles Bridge without his consent.
According to the iDNES.cz news portal, Černý, who became a media celebrity the year before last, preferred to stay away this year. Last time, the municipal company warned him. “If I see that they are doing it properly and it makes sense, I will not go into it. But when I see that they are messing with it, I will go for it, “the website of the” phantom “from Charles Bridge quoted.
There are more and more cases of vandals raging at well-known Prague buildings and iconic locations. On Wednesday, November 3, for example, someone spray-painted the cable car to Petřín. Due to the removal of the sign, it was out of operation all morning, the ride started again at 11:15 am. In October, ten young people spray-painted the metro set after stopping it at the Rajská zahrada station. There were physical clashes with passengers on the spot. In Kampa towards U lužického semináře street, the inscription “Krakow Moscow = Prague” decorated one of the pillars in March this year. According to the spokesperson of the Technical Administration of Communications (TSK) Barbora Lišková, the so-called tag was also recorded on the stairs at the turn of May and June.