Seven members of the Ultima
Generazione (Last Generation - UG) climate crisis activist group
were cited Wednesday for trying to interrupt the inaugural game
of the European Women's Volleyball Championships between Italy
and Romania in Verona Tuesday night.
The four women and three men, aged between 24 and 41, were
already known to police for allegedly illegal protest actions,
police said.
They are from Verona, Padua, Rome, Milan and Trieste.
Police confiscated various protest materials including glue and
black and orange powder which the protesters planned to use
after buying tickets in various spots close to the court.
UG has staged a series of controversial headline-grabbing
protests in the last two years including last month pouring red
liquid over themselves outside Florence cathedral and last
August 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.
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