Climate activists stage daring protest on Rome ring-road

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 17 - Four members of Italy's Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) civil-disobedience group abseiled down from a bridge on Wednesday to halt traffic on Rome's 'Tangenziale' ring road in a daring stunt that is part of their efforts to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis.
    As they did so, a group of 10 other protestors blocked the traffic in the other direction.
    The group held up a banner declaring "We Won't Pay for Fossil Fuels", referring their campaign to stop public investment in, and subsidies of, fossil fuels, the biggest source of the greenhouse emissions causing the climate crisis.
    Firefighters had to intervene to get the abseiling activists down.
    All the protestors have been reported to criminal prosecutors.
    (ANSA).