Kalou Faces Huge Fine for Vandalising Berlin Wall

​In a piece of bizarre yet in some ways unsurprising news that broke this morning, former Chelsea winger Salomon Kalou is reportedly facing a huge fine after being snapped appearing to vandalise the Berlin wall with a hammer and chisel, ​media reporting.

The 29-year-old is currently plying his trade in the city after signing for Hertha Berlin on a season-long loan deal from french side Lille, and the attacker has enjoyed a prolific spell in Germany - scoring 6 times in 12 starts.

However, the Ivory Coast international made the headlines for the wrong reasons on Monday morning after being caught breaking off a piece of the historic monument for himself.

​​The Wall is a protected monument in Germany, having initially been constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in order to divide East and West Berlin, and it did so for 28 years from 1961-1989.

It was granted its protected status upon the fall of the GDR in 1991, and vandalism of the monument carries a heavy fine of up to 10,000 Euros.

Upon seeing the image of Kalou, a deeply offended Kani Alavi - chairman of the artists initiative the East Side Gallery (who reportedly own the copyright to the graffiti on the wall while ever the Wall belongs to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough of Berlin) - immediately made an official complaint to the police regarding what he branded disrespectful behaviour:

"When I saw the pictures, I almost fell off the couch," Alavi told German Press.

"We have a well-paid celebrity increasing his market value at the expense of a monument. Without respect. And the public television mixes with it. I am deeply disappointed."

"Just because there are no security guards, that does not mean that you can do what you want there. If he had been doing that at the Brandenburg Gate, the player would have been arrested."

Despite demonstrating he's a dab hand with hammer and chisel, Kalou was unable to carve a way through Premier League defences quite so effectively, having averaged under a goal every 3.5 games for in 6 years at Stamford Bridge.