Vandal damages Picasso's painting at the Tate Modern in London

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A £ 20m Picasso was voluntarily damaged at London's Tate Modern Gallery by a 20-year-old young man who has now been indicted and who will remain in pre-trial detention until the first hearing set for January 30th.

The episode, reported by the BBC, occurred on December 28th. The ruined painting - it would have suffered a tear according to the information that leaked - is "Bust of a woman" from 1944.

The work depicts Picasso's lover Dora Maar and was painted in Paris in May 1944, during the last months of the Nazi occupation.