Graffiti painters forced to clean up!

I read this piece of news yesterday in the local paper, but can't find any web links to it. Anyway, two French youngsters (those French, always bothering the rest of the world :o) were caught painting some graffiti in the EUR area of Rome by a few nightguards.

Dirtying buildings with graffiti is a breach to the Italian law, and bears a jail sentence of up to a year. Well, these guys were taken to the mayor's roomand reproached for what they had done by the man himself! moreover, they were proposed to clean the buildings they had written on in exchange for a cancellation of the police report (which meant no trial would happen).

They accepted, and could be seen today cleaning walls in EUR.

Way to go mr. Veltroni! those who dirty should be forced to clean up!