Cristiano Ronaldo Statue Set ON FIRE in Bizarre Video Online as Police Attempt to Hunt Down Vandal

Police are hunting a vandal who set light to a Cristiano Ronaldo statue on the footballer's home island of Madeira and posted footage of his bizarre stunt online.

The dishevelled-looking youngster filmed himself poured a flammable liquid over the bronze replica of the former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker before putting a lighter to it.

And as the flames took hold of the sculpture, and almost set light to the top he was wearing before he backed away from danger, he went on to perform a crazy dance to rap music blaring out on a speaker he had brought along for the occasion.

He posted the outlandish video, taken on Tuesday morning by the CR7 Museum in the Madeiran capital Funchal which celebrates Cristiano's career, to his 1,000 followers on his Instagram site where he identifies himself with the username zaino.tcc.filipe and describes himself as a 'person, freestyler and local man.'

And he published an even stranger message alongside the footage of his stunt, writing: 'This is God's last warning.'

It was not immediately clear if the statue, moved from elsewhere on the island in March 2016 after it was vandalised by Messi fans, had suffered any permanent damage..