Italy: Environmental protest paints Senate facade pink

Five eco-activists from the collective “last generation”this Monday they smeared the facade with pink paint madam palaceseat of the Italian Senate, in a new act of protest by this group aimed at preventing the climate crisis.

Three of the perpetrators were arrested in their entirety and must face trial in Rome, the publication reported. Italian authoritieswhile two others reported escaping.

” Italian government is criminal because it finances fossil fuels,” argued the activists, who also warned of a future of “no food” and a “desert” Italy due to changing of the climateas seen in various videos circulating on social media.

“At the heart of the gesture is the desperation stemming from a string of increasingly disturbing data about an ecoclimatic collapse that has already begun, and the indifference of the political world to what promises to be the greatest genocide in human history. “This is stated in the message of the group.

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Leaders reaction institutions Italian against attacks on madam palacehistoric building built in 15th century and which houses important works of art, were not long in coming.

“I stand with the President of the Senate and all Senators in condemning this outrageous gesture, which is incompatible with any civil protest,” the Prime Minister said in a statement. Georgia Meloni.

For his part, the chairman of the Upper House, Ignazio La Russa, lamented: “The Senate was cowardly chosen because, unlike other institutions, the need to create a security zone around the building has never been considered until now.”

Vice President Government and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said of its authors that “they are vandals, not activists. An exemplary punishment is needed for those who mutilate and damage works of art, paintings, museums and historical monuments, but not before everything is cleaned and repaired. damage caused”.

For his part, the President Chamber of Deputies of ItalyLorenzo Fontana “strongly” condemned the incident and recalled that institutions “are a fundamental part of democracy and as such must be respected.”

The activist group responsible for the attack is part of Ultima Generazione, the Italian branch of Extinction Rebellion, an international group that promotes civil disobedience and protests to draw attention to the climate crisis.

In recent months, repeatedly attacks on works of art and historic buildings in Europe: In October a group of environmentalists poured mush over a Monet painting in Germany, in November two activists joined two Goya paintings in Madrid, and in December several protesters painted the Teatro de la Scala in Milan, among other protests.

EFE