UG climate group soils Health G7 venue

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 9 - Members of the Ultima Generazione (UG - Last Generation) group on Wednesday soiled the walls of Ancona's courthouse, the venue for the Health G7 meeting, as part of its campaign of civil disobedience aiming to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis.
    Four young people sat in front of the entrance of the building, shouting about climate disasters like the floods that have been hitting Italy increasingly frequently, and displaying banners calling for the creation of a 'Reparation Fund' for households hit by climate catastrophes.
    They also covered themselves in a black substance and used it to make handprints on the walls of the courthouse.
    Police intervened and took the protesters away.
    The group said it staged the protest to "denounce the hypocrisy of the meeting of the health ministers of the G7 countries in a city and in an area where the political world and the institutions have been conniving for decades with the fossil fuel industry and cruise tourism, the causes of air pollution and damage to citizens' health" The group referred specifically to the nearby Falconara API oil refinery, saying it is "causing people to get sick and killing the whole province".
    UG has used easy-to.-wash-off 'paint' substances for such protests in the past. (ANSA).