BRUSSELS, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - A Belgian court fined a French street artist 200,000 euros ($313,000) for spray painting graffiti on more than 30 historic buildings in central Brussels, local media said on Monday.
The fine will cover the cost of cleaning more than 50 street paintings left by the 20-year-old hit-and-run artist last fall and in March this year, a police spokesman said.
The graffiti artist was finally caught after police arrested one of his friends spray-painting a building. During a search of the detainee's home, officers discovered a large-scale graffiti painting, and the young man admitted it was made by the French 'artist.'
In February, a German tourist spent a day and a half cleaning graffiti from the 12 kilometer (7.4 mile) long Franz Josef Glacier, in New Zealand's South Island, after he was caught red handed defacing the rocks.
