A group of five environmental activists from the Ultima Generazione collective This Monday, the facade of the building was smeared with pink paint. Madame Palace, The Italian Senate is in a new protest action by this group to warn against the climate crisis.
“The Italian government is guilty because fossil fuels“, It confirmed activists, who also warned of a future with a “food-less” and “deserted” Italy due to climate change, as seen in several videos circulating on social networks.
Protesters who managed to partially cover the facade and windows in the lower part of the building with spray paint, They were caught in full action by law enforcement, who continued to spot and arrest them, according to local media.
“The basis of the gesture is the desperation that comes from the action. the succession of increasingly alarming data on ecoclimatic collapse, “The indifference of the political world in the face of what promises to be the greatest genocide in human history,” the statement said.
Italian leaders’ reactions
This Reactions of leaders of Italian institutions It didn’t take long to oppose the attack on the Madama Palace, a historic building built in the 15th century that houses important works of art.
“The Senate was cowardly chosen because unlike other institutions“Until now, the head of the Upper House, Ignazio La Russa, has never considered the need to create a security zone around the building.”
Matteo Salvini, the government’s Vice-President and Minister of Infrastructure, said of its authors that “they are vandals, not activists”. “Anyone who damages works of art, paintings, museums and historical artifacts requires exemplary punishment, but not without cleaning everything up and removing the damage done.”
If the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana “strongly” condemned what had happened, reminding that institutions “represent an essential part of democracy and therefore must be respected”.
The activist group responsible for the attack is part of the Ultima Generazione unit in Italy. extinction rebellion, An international group that supports civil disobedience and protest actions to draw attention to the climate crisis.
Repeated in recent months attacks on works of art and historical buildings Europe: In October, an environmental group mashed a Monet painting in Germany, in November two activists attached it to two Goya paintings in Madrid, and in December several protesters painted the Teatro de la Scala in Milan, among other protests.