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Milan, smeared with paint the equestrian monument dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II

Two activists, from the "Let's not pay for the fossil" campaign, sprayed orange paint with a fire extinguisher and then threw "information leaflets" from the base of the statue before being blocked by the carabinieri

09/03/2023

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They smeared the statue with orange paint, washable, sprayed with a fire extinguisher: protagonists two activists who targeted the equestrian monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, in Piazza Duomo in Milan, and then launched information leaflets in order to illustrate the reason for the gesture. Blocked by the carabinieri, the demonstrators were taken away by weight to be identified. These are two people opposed to the use of the "fossil". "The government has invested 41.8 billion in the extraction of fossil fuels only in 2021: we ask that this mountain of money be immediately removed from the fossil and invested in a just ecological transition, in measures to benefit the health of citizens and in the future of the younger generations", explains a note signed by the most famous organization Last Generation. "Italy is the sixth largest investor in the world in fossil fuels, it invests even more than Russia and Saudi Arabia", denounces the statement that goes on to highlight "we must immediately get rid of oil, coal and gas: doing so is possible, only the political will is lacking because we live in a system in which the profit of a few counts more than the lives of millions of people". In the meantime the monument has been fenced and cleaned.