Ultima Generazione activists fined for public indecency

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 2 - Several Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, UG) climate crisis activists were fined 3,300 euros each for public indecency after stripping stark naked and blocking traffic in a flash mob on a central Turin bridge on Saturday.
    The five protesters were hauled away by police.
    Officers however had to break the chains they had used to link themselves together.
    As well as the fines, they were cited for blocking traffic, interrupting public services (referring to buses that couldn't cross the bridge), staging an unauthorised demonstration and refusal to give their personal details.
    UG has staged a series of controversial headline-grabbing protests in the last two years including pouring red liquid over themselves outside Florence cathedral and gluing themselves to the iconic Laocoon statuary group in the Vatican Museums.
    In May this year a protest at the Giro d'Italia by three UG members was thwarted as the trio was dragged away from the road at Meolo near Venice before they could stop a breakaway group of four riders from racing past.
    Earlier that month UG staged another act of civil disobedience to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis when two protestors covered themselves in mud outside the Senate in Rome.
    Three UG members are currently on trial in Rome for spraying easy-to-wash-off paint over the facade of the Senate in January.
    (ANSA).