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.
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