Instant karma for ‘British’ parkour runner as he damages UNESCO World Heritage Site building during roof-top jump when masonry gives way beneath him – sending him crashing to the ground

This is the moment a parkour runner faced instant karma after a rooftop jump damaged a UNESCO World Heritage building in Italy and the masonry collapsed beneath him.

The unidentified free runner destroyed part of a wall in the ancient city of Matera, in the south of the country. With his jump he fell to the ground and clutched his ankle in pain.

In a video of the botched stunt, which appeared on social media on June 12, everyone appears to be speaking with an English accent as the injured man shouts: “Oh no, f***.”

Bystanders respond with cries of ‘ooh, f***’, *ooh, s***’ and ‘are you okay?’

The footage shows a man wearing a green long-sleeved top and black trousers jumping from one roof to another before jumping with one foot onto a narrow section of brickwork protruding from a wall.

The free runner then jumped with one foot onto a narrow rock on the side of a wall to propel him to the next building, but the brickwork crumbled beneath him.

The man fell to the ground and clutched his right ankle in pain

It is clear that he intended to jump from the edge onto another roof, but when he landed on it, it crumbled beneath him and he fell to the hard ground.

You then see the extreme runner sitting against a wall in terror and clutching his right ankle.

The historic clifftop town in the Basilicata region has been a UNESCO protected site since 1993 and has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic, the early Stone Age.

For safety reasons it was evacuated in stages between the 1950s and 1970s.

The shocking footage was shared online by choreographer Luca Tommassini, who angrily said: ‘It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site. How dare you?’

Mr Tommassini added: ‘Do you know where you are and what you are touching?

‘Matera should not be used as a parkour park, that stone could have been there when America was discovered or even before.’

It is unclear whether the police are investigating the free runners seen in the images.

Everyone in the video appears to have a British accent, with the injured man shouting ‘Oh no, f***’ and others also shouting expletives

The historic clifftop town in the Basilicata region has been a UNESCO protected site since 1993 and has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic, the early Stone Age.

Matera was evacuated in stages for safety reasons between the 1950s and 1970s

The shocking images were shared online by choreographer Luca Tommassini

Mr Tommassini asked: ‘How dare you? ‘Do you know where you are and what you are touching? Matera should not be used as a parkour park.’

The incident is the latest example of foreign visitors infuriating locals.

Earlier this month, a Dutch tourist was arrested for damaging the Domus excavations that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Naples.

The unnamed 27-year-old man was detained after staff discovered graffiti on a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum.

Italian police said in a statement that the graffiti, done with a black permanent marker, matched the man’s signature.

In 2023, two tourists carved their names into the wall of the 2,000-year-old Colosseum.

Also that year, tourists were caught covering a historic Italian monument with football graffiti.

Two German men were arrested by police after allegedly using black spray paint to write ‘DKS 1860’ on the 460-year-old columns of Florence’s iconic Vasari Corridor.

The corridor connects the valuable Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace and was originally built for the powerful Medici family.

In recent years, holidaymakers have also caused outrage by plunging into ancient fountains to cool off in the summer.

A sign made with a black marker on the wall of a domus of the Herculaneum archaeological park, in Ercolano, Naples, Italy

A tourist sparked outrage in 2023 by carving names into the stone walls of the 1937-year-old Colosseum with a set of keys