"City officials confirmed Monday that a statue of Christopher Columbus in Bridgeport's Seaside Park has been vandalized with black paint on the sculpture's face. Elaine Ficarra, aide to Mayor Bill Finch said that she and a city parks official went down to look at the Columbus statue after hearing that it might have been defaced recently. Although a restoration of the statue is planned in conjunction with the 520th anniversary of the explorer's landing in Central America in October, the paint is not part of that project. ""It is definitely vandalism and it will be repaired right away. Someone defacing something, whether it is city property or private, just deprives other people of the enjoyment of it,'' the mayor's spokeswoman said. Photo: B.K. Angeletti / File Photo / Connecticut Post"
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