The government is set to approve a
bill introducing new measures targeting cultural heritage
vandals at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The bill clamping down on the "destruction, dispersal,
deterioration, defacement, soiling and illegal use of cultural
or landscape heritage" has been proposed by the Culture Ministry
as an addition to the agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
Earlier this month Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said the
government was considering making climate activists targeting
monuments or works of art pay for the subsequent restorations,
after members of the Ultimate Generazione (UG,
Last Generation) group made the waters of one of Rome's most
iconic fountains, the Barcaccia near the Spanish Steps, turn
black.
It was only the latest in a long series of acts of civic
disobedience carried out by UG to highlight the need to address
the climate crisis.
"We are thinking of introducing a (new) administrative penalty,"
Sangiuliano said during a visit to Naples.
"It is being studied by the technical and legal experts who work
with the ministry, he added.
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