A Rome court on Friday admitted the Senate, the culture ministry and the city of Rome as civil plaintiffs in the criminal trial against three climate protestors who sprayed easy-to-wash-off red paint over the front of the building of the Upper House on January 2.
The action was part of a series of acts of civil disobedience
staged by the Ultima Generazione (UG - Last Generation) group to
highlight the need to address the climate crisis.
The three yojng peoeple, Laura Paracini, David Nensi and
Alessandro Sulis, are charged with aggravated criminal damage
and could face three years in jail.
The judge adjourned proceedings against until October 18.
The case is set to be one of many as the group have been
especially active recently, with the " We Won't Pay for Fossil
Fuels" campaign to stop public investment in, and subsidies of,
fossil fuels, the biggest source of the greenhouse emissions
causing the climate crisis.
Other UG protests have included splashing paint at the La Scala
opera house and the Vittorio Emanuele II statue in Milan,
sticking themselves to Botticelli's Spring at the Uffizi and the
Laocoon statue in the Vatican, blocking the Mt Blanc Tunnel,
throwing flour over an Andy Warhol car in Milan, stripping off
half naked and halting traffic, throwing soup onto a Van Gogh
and pouring diluted vegetable charcoal into the Four Rivers in
Piazza Navona in Rome.
In the light of such acts, the government has approved a
crackdown on art 'eco-vandals', with fines of up to 60,000
euros.
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