News – Austria’s Oldest Vandals Prosecuted – Europe

A duo of art vandals were recently prosecuted in Salzburg for their super-strength reaction to nudity. The pair had taken it upon themselves to cover up Markus Lüpertz's sculpture of a naked, one-armed Mozart, painting the piece for so-called reasons of anti-porn. One of the men, an eighty-year-old ex-photographer (his partner in crime is seventy-nine), apparently calls himself a ‘porn hunter’, which is just bizarre beyond belief. After all, we all know you need look no further than the local corner shop for a little porno - porno that is far more suited to a cover up than say, a work of art. Of course, given the age group of the vandals, their story sounds almost endearing. However, these guys managed to do a remarkable amount of damage, with costs running over eight thousand dollars.