Italians fined for urinating on Cinque Terre sea

Young people will have to pay 3 thousand euros each for breach of decorum

Two Italians were fined three thousand euros after being caught peeing on the Vernazza sea pier, one of the cities belonging to the famous Cinque Terre area in Italy.

Last weekend, the young people attended a party in Monterosso and before returning home, late in the evening, they decided to urinate in the sea, in an isolated area on the fishermen's wharf.

The Italians, however, were surprised by the Carabinieri (Italian police) who applied the fine. "We thought we would not be seen, we did not know where to go." At that time the bars were almost all closed and we believed that urinating at sea was the most natural thing that could be done, "said the young people.

"When we read the fine - exactly three thousand euros for each one - we did not want to believe, but even more incredible was the motivation, which reports a breach of public decorum," they concluded.