A major three-year restoration project which cost $130 million had just been completed the day before.
Police were notified about the incident and tracked the Irishman down to a nearby fast food restaurant.that the man was briefly detained and will face criminal charges. Police did not identify the tourist by name.
The statue will now have to be restored again. Management for the building are hoping to recover the cost of the repair from the tourist, to the tune of 17,600 euros, about C$25,000,“The repairs are going to cost a lot of money because the work will have to be done by real craftsmen,” said the project manager for the restoration, Nel Vandevennet. “It is listed heritage and there will be follow-up from the monuments and landscapes agency of the Brussels region.
In 2000, the stock exchange merged with the Paris and Amsterdam stock exchanges to form Euronext, a pan-European exchange. In 2015, the company moved out of the historic stock exchange building in Brussels. Since then, the building has been used to house temporary exhibits until renovations began in 2020 to restore the building and re-open it as a museum about Belgian beer.offering 400 different kinds of beer on the menu.
The day after the opening was when the drunken tourist damaged the statue. It’s unclear if he had visited Belgian Beer World.
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