Environmental activists vandalized a monumental statue in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo

The monument to Victor Emmanuel IIan enclave of Italian history located in Milan, was attacked today by environmental activist group Ultima Generazione, who threw yellow paint on the statue and then uploaded the video to their social media.

In the video shared by Ultima Generazione, you can see how several activists throw a lot of paint on the monumental statue located in Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Italy. After the action, the activists devoted themselves to distributing leaflets, until the Carabinieri arrived and expelled them.

“Billions continue to be allocated to the fossil fuel industry, while only pennies arrive to protect our territories”, is the claim they shared on their networks with the video of the vandal intervention , which is part of what they call “a nonviolent civil campaign”. disobedience.

Among its manifestations, Ultima Generazione also attacked several works of art in other European cities, such as when they sprayed a painting by the painter with a black liquid that simulated oil Gustav Klimt at the Leopold Museum in Vienna or when a painting by the French impressionist painter was attacked Claude Monet throwing mashed potatoes at him, at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, reports the daily ABC.

Late last year, the group also made headlines by covering a car painted by Andy Warhol shouting “‘There will be no more food or water, there is an ecological collapse!”, as part of an exhibition.

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