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There are more than a few sections that feel oversaturated, to pick a fitting metaphor for Venice, where climate change laps at every canal-side palazzo and vaporetto stop.

A working-class town traditionally relying on fishing and agriculture, famous both for its radicchio and beets, it has long provided workers for wealthier Venice, where, even today, many of the vaporetto conductors and hotel staff commute from Chioggia.

They shared space comfortably with public Vaporetto buses, water taxis, an array of motorboats and rocking gondolas.

In mind’s eye, it was easy to envision them tucking skateboards beneath their arms for the vaporetto trip to the mainland and, eventually, to that other Venice — you know, the one in Mr. Slimane’s transplanted home, Southern California.

Footage of the altercation shows the alleged rule-breaker first being pushed out of the boat — known locally as the vaporetto — by a man in a blue shirt.