The Ultima Generazione (Last
Generation - UG) civil-disobedience group returned to the Uffizi
Gallery in Florence on Sunday to stage another stunt aimed at
highlighting the need to combat the climate crisis.
Five members of the group pasted images of last year's
disastrous Campi Bisenzio floods near Florence onto the screen
protecting Sandro Botticelli's Primavera.
Museum guards turned off the lights in the room, told visitors
to leave and called the police. The stunt was over within
minutes.
UG members staged a similar protest at the museum last month
with Botticelli's Birth of Venus.
In November a Florence judge acquitted three members of the
group who had glued themselves to the protective screen of
Botticelli's Primavera in July 2022.
"The mud destroyed everything in 2023 in Campi Bisenzio leaving
behind more than two billion euros in damage and seven deaths,"
UG said in a statement.
"The government has not yet given money to the affected people.
"It talks about security, but the only security it respects is
that of the market.
"And it punishes those who ask for this (security) with
(possible) fines of 20,000 euros (for climate protests).
"Ultima Generazione demands that the State takes care of its
citizens with a 20 billion 'Reparation Fund' for all the victims
of climate disasters".
UG has staged a series of controversial headline-grabbing
protests in the last two years including pouring red liquid over
themselves outside Florence cathedral and gluing themselves to
the iconic Laocoon statuary group in the Vatican Museums.
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