An Irish vacationer has been arrested after allegedly breaking a stone statue whereas climbing over it in Brussels.

Video footage reveals a person in a white T-shirt and black shorts clambering over the again of the stone lion within the Belgian capital.

The hapless vandal could be seen seated on the stone murals exterior town's lately renovated inventory change constructing earlier than rising up and making an attempt to swing his leg over.

But when he seems to lean his weight onto a part of the statue so as swing his different leg throughout, a part of it snaps off and could be heard smashing on the bottom under.

The man has been arrested and the managers of the historic constructing have known as for him to pay for the repairwork, in response to the BBC.