Yucatan.- For the second time in three months, another tourist broke the law by climbing the steps of the Kukulkan pyramid, in the archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá, located in Yucatán.
This weekend it was reported that a tourist of Polish origin, identified as Pawel Tomasz, yesterday ignored the security fences and in an oversight of the staff managed to ascend the west side of the pyramid.
Subsequently, security personnel from the archaeological zone and from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) realized the situation and made the offender get off.
Upon his descent, Tomasz was walking guarded by the staff when a subject confronted him to claim why he had climbed the Kukulkan pyramid.
However, behind the Pole walked another subject who attacked him with a shovel to the head.
Everything was documented in videos, such as the case of the tourist from Mexicali, Baja California, who in November 2022 also jumped the security fence to climb to the top of the Kukulkan pyramid.
“To jail for an idiot!”, “Boo, boo!” and “Get out of the country!”, were some of the cries that were launched against him.
In accordance with the Federal Law on Monuments and Archaeological, Artistic and Historical Zones, people who mistreat heritage of this type, and thereby violate the law, can spend up to three years in jail or also pay a fine of 100,000 pesos. .
It was since 2006 when the INAH prohibited climbing this World Heritage Site of the Mayan world, which is located 115 kilometers from Mérida, Yucatán.
As for Pawel, local media reports that he only had to serve a 12-hour arrest and pay a fine of 5,000 pesos.
