Vita gazette – Ultima Generazione defaced the luxury shops via Condotti and attacked them. Thirteen arrested. Luxury shops painted orange.

This morning at 11, a group adhering to the Fund for Repair campaign daubed several shops with orange paint on Via Condotti. Passersby attacked and insulted the activists before the police blocked them.

Thirteen activists were arrested for the raid. The agents of the 1st Central Group of the local police interrupted the action. They blocked the environmentalists, who were then accompanied to the offices via della Greca for the ritual investigations.

Earlier this week, climate activists entered courts during Rome Open tennis matches. They disrupted the matches and carried out similar actions against shops in the capital’s centre where some products were sold to athletes.

Activists poured green-dyed water into the Grand Canal in Venice in December 2023, the Trevi Fountain and the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the capital Rome in May 2023, and the historic town halls of Florence and Milan in March 2023. They organized demonstrations painted on the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele 2 in.

The coalition government led by Giorgia Meloni had chosen to tighten sanctions in response to climate activists’ frequent actions against cultural heritage assets.

In January, the government launched and passed through parliament the regulation imposing a fine of 20,000 to 60,000 euros on those who destroy cultural property.