He dived from the Guglie bridge in the middle of the night, but remained in the water just long enough to be reached by a local police patrol and forcibly fished out. And, once it resurfaces, he presented himself to the officers completely nakedevidently preferring that solution to a bath in underwear instead of a bathing suit.
In recent days the police have surprised, fined and expelled from the city the second “diver” of the season, after the young man from Vicenza who was chased and blocked at the end of May. In this case it was a 35 year old of Serbian originsso drunk that he convinced the Local agents to do so the 118 health workers also intervene to support themto take care of him.
He too, like the boy from Vicenza, saw himself detached a fine of over 300 euros and, again according to the indications of the municipal urban police regulation, he was also given a Daspo which provides for his removal from Venice for the 48 hours immediately following the infringement. In reality it is possible that, given the Adamic outfit with which he decided to try his hand at his nocturnal bath, the 35-year-old will also be caught up by an additional penalty.
Interventions regarding urban decoration always risk taking up a good part of the working hours of the Venetian police, who every summer find themselves forced to chase those tourists who seem not being able to resist the temptation to dive into the canal: the municipal regulation has been tightened in recent years precisely to intervene in these cases, providing a greater deterrent in terms of administrative sanctions, but above all also introducing the Daspo measure.
Then on Friday 7 June, the local police also intervened in Campo San Bortolo for an abusive player: reported by some shopkeepers in the area, the man was performing a few steps from Rialto without any permission, even going as far as bother passers-by, tourists in particular. Blocked by the police, he also had the instrument confiscated.
