Tuesday 17 March 2015 18:57, UK
Former Chelsea player Salomon Kalou could be fined up to £7,100 after video footage showed him appearing to damage the Berlin Wall.
Now playing for Hertha Berlin, Kalou was seen chiselling off a piece of the Wall at the Eastside Gallery as a memento as part of a segment being filmed by a local TV station about Hertha’s 2-2 draw against Schalke on Saturday afternoon.
But what remains of the Berlin Wall, which divided Germany's capital from 1961-89, has been under a protection order since 1991 and anyone defacing it can be heavily fined.
"I nearly fell off the sofa when I saw the footage," Kani Alavi, the chairman of the Eastside Gallery, told the Berliner Kurier newspaper.
"Here we have a well-paid celebrity increasing his market value at the expense of a national monument. Without respect. And with the clear backing of television.
"Just because there is no security patrolling the Gallery, doesn't mean you can go around doing what you want.
"If he had done that at the Brandenburg Gate, the player would probably have been arrested."
