Vita gazette – A new raid by the environmental group Ultima Generazione hit the Senate on Monday morning. The activists sprayed orange paint on the facade of Palazzo Madama with fire extinguishers in Rome, also smearing some windows and a door. Three arrested and two charged.

A new raid by the environmental group Ultima Generazione hit the Senate on Monday morning. The activists, replicating a form of protest that has characterized them in recent months, have sprayed orange paint on the facade of Palazzo Madama with fire extinguishers, in Rome, also smearing some windows and a door. Three activists arrested and two reported: for them the charge is aggravated damage. For those arrested, the hearing must be held by express procedure before the judge of the court of Rome. The three arrested are considered the material perpetrators of the action. In the joint investigation by Digos and the Carabinieri of the Information Unit, responsibility was also ascertained for the other two activists arrested for whom a complaint was made on the loose. The gesture prompted the intervention of the police, with the Carabinieri arresting five people and taking them to the offices of the local police station to examine their position. The investigation into what happened is conducted by Digos with the help of the Arma. The activists motivated their action by explaining that “at the basis of the gesture is the desperation that derives from the succession of increasingly alarming statistics and data on the eco-climatic collapse, which has already begun, and the indifference of the political world in the face of that which promises to be the greatest genocide in the history of humanity“.

Salvini: “these are vandals, not activists”

The president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, intervened on the Ultima Generazione action, condemning the act of the activists: “No alibi, no justification for an act that offends all institutions and which only thanks to the cold blood of the carabinieri is not transcended into violence. The Senate was cowardly chosen because unlike Palazzo Chigi, the Chamber of Deputies and other institutions, it has never considered until now the need to create a security area around the building. I have immediately convened the Senate Presidency Council for tomorrow at 3 pm for any appropriate decision”. Matteo Salvini says that “these are vandals, not activists. For those who smear and damage works of art, paintings, museums and historical monuments, an exemplary punishment is needed, not before having cleaned everything up and repaid the damage done”. “Firm condemnation” came from the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, “for the demonstrative gesture against the Palazzo del Senato by a group that defines itself as an ‘environmentalist’. I would like to remind them, as well as those who smear works of art all over the world in the belief that they are thus passing on a message in favor of environmental protection, that the fight against climate change is at the heart of the concerns of governments from all over the world. the world and that the greater part of the Next Generation Eu is destined precisely for the ecological transition”. The Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, wrote on Twitter that “the defense of the environment is a serious and difficult challenge that must be won with the commitment of all the institutions. Throwing paint at the Senate has nothing to do with fighting climate change. It is only an act of vandalism to be firmly condemned”. Thus the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, on Twitter.