ROME — Seven younger activists protesting in opposition to local weather change climbed into the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Sunday and poured diluted charcoal into the water to show it black.
The protesters from the “Ultima Generazione” (“Last Generation”) group held up banners saying “We won’t pay for fossil [fuels],” and shouted “our country is dying.”
Ultima Generazione video through Reuters
Uniformed police waded into the water to remove the activists, with many vacationers filming the stunt and some of the onlookers shouting insults on the protesters, video footage confirmed.
In an announcement, Ultima Generazione known as for an finish to public subsidies for fossil fuels and linked the protests to lethal floods within the northern Italian area of Emilia-Romagna in current days. The group mentioned one in 4 homes in Italy are in danger from flooding.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri condemned the protest, the newest in a sequence of acts focusing on artistic endeavors in Italy.
“Enough of these absurd attacks on our artistic heritage,” he wrote on Twitter.
The custom is for guests to toss cash into the well-known 18th century Trevi Fountain to make sure that they’ll return to Rome someday. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
