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.
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