Barcelona: Environmentalists spray paint the facade of the Sagrada Familia
In a video published by Futuro Vegetal on social networks, we see two activists from the association arrested by security agents after spraying paint on the bottom of a column of the famous cathedral, shouting: "Climate justice" .
Two climate activists threw red paint at the facade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Sunday to protest against inaction on the "climate crisis" that environmentalists say has fueled the recent forest fires that have ravaged Spain.
In a video published by Futuro Vegetal on social networks, we see two activists from the association arrested by security agents after spraying paint on the bottom of a column of the famous cathedral, shouting: "Climate justice" .
Skip the ad"With this protest, the environmental group denounces the government's lack of action against the climate crisis and its repercussions on the fires that devastated the peninsula and a large part of Europe this summer," Futuro Vegetal explained in a press release.
The Sagrada Familia, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) but still unfinished, is one of the main attractions of the tourist city of Barcelona. Spain suffered a wave of dramatic forest fires in August that killed four people and ravaged more than 350,000 hectares. These fires constitute "one of the biggest environmental disasters" the country has experienced in recent years, according to the left-wing government, which has linked their scale to climate change.
Futuro Vegetal has carried out dozens of similar protests in recent years, denounced as vandalism by many museums, including one in 2022 in which its activists glued their hands to the frames of paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
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