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A person was taken into police custody on Saturday after he broke the armrest off an ancient Vietnamese throne acknowledged as a ‘national treasure,’ Vietnamese state media reported.
The throne dates again to the Nguyen Dynasty, the final royal dynasty of Vietnam, which lasted from 1802 to 1945.
The Nguyen Dynasty established the city of Hue, in the middle of the nation, because the capital of Vietnam when it was in energy, in accordance with UNESCO. The metropolis’s monuments, which embrace a number of royal palaces, ritual websites and tombs, have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The throne that was damaged on Saturday was positioned inside Hue’s Thái Hòa Palace, town’s “most important structure,” the place emperors held court docket and royal ceremonies had been performed, in accordance with Vietnam News.
Shortly after 12 p.m. on Saturday (1 a.m. ET), a person exhibiting “signs of severe intoxication” entered a roped-off restricted space of the palace and climbed up onto the throne, Vietnam News reported. He then “shouted incoherently” and broke the left armrest of the ceremonial chair, the state information web site stated.
{A photograph} posted by Nhân Dân, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, exhibits part of the armrest that featured a dragon’s head mendacity on the ground. Two different fragments of the armrest are mendacity beside it.
The man that broke the throne has been despatched for a psychiatric evaluation, Vietnam News reported, because of his “unstable mental state” which included “delusions and incoherent speech.”
Security measures are being tightened throughout all the advanced of monuments, “with an emphasis on the protection of artifacts and national treasures,” the state information web site added.