After the online drag which however led to his identification, the tourist who last week he carved the initials of his and his girlfriend’s name on a wall of the Colosseum, he finally apologized for his act.

In fact, he claimed that he did what he did because he did not know that the site was an archaeological monument (!).

The tourist can be seen in a video, which was posted last Saturday on social media, to carve his name and his girlfriend’s name with a key into an interior wall of the ancient Roman amphitheater.

He seems to be smilingeven as the videographer scolds him speaking to him in English and cursing him.

Twenty-seven-year-old Ivan Dimitrov, a gymnast from Bulgaria who lives permanently in Bristol, Great Britainwas able to be identified after a great deal of effort by the Italian police, the Italian Hotel Association and the Colosseum workers and is about to be fined eighteen thousand euros.

In his letter to the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri and the residents of the Eternal City, Dimitrov apologizes to all those who “with dedication and sacrifice protect the priceless historical and cultural value of the Colosseum” while, at the same time, adding that “he had not realized that he was in this well-known place and only then was he informed that it was an ancient monument».

The 27-year-old, in his short letter, he apologizes “by the Italians but also by the whole world” for the damage he caused to a monument “which, de facto, is part of the international cultural heritage”as he underlines.