There is no clear , ' we have identified the practical jokers , here ' s a statement from one of them '. It is an internal matter that has been put to rest . They wrote a letter of apology , which was forwarded to the DirectorGeneral . There was talk about it being passed on to India ' s representatives since the statue was their gift , but I ' m not sure if that happened . CERN is not going to make their identities public because they ' re reasonable people who aren ' t going to ruin the careers of several young researchers over a bit of bad publicity . Not to mention that would be bad publicity itself . No ' cctv shows the true story ' what place like this which apparently has lots of prank loving visitors doesn ' t have cctv up for surveilling areas like this ? You must be British . The rest of Europe isn ' t as obsessed with CCTV . I have only seen cameras at the gates and in certain safetycritical places , such as entrances to supervised radiation zones .