Activists have held protests across Europe in recent months
Anti-climate change activists in Italy threw paint at its entrance today famous opera house La Scala before the season opener, local police said.
Activists have held protests across Europe in recent months, targeting, in some cases, museums and works of art to demand more effective action to tackle global warming.
The movement Ultima Generazione (UG, Last Generation) has announced that it is taking responsibility for the protests in Milan.
The group of protesters held up a banner that read “Ultima Generazione – No Gas, No Coal” and threw blue and pink paint at the entrance to La Scala. Five people were arrested, according to a police statement, and taken to the department for identification, while they will be referred to the prosecutor. Cleaning crews quickly removed the paint from the theater entrance.
La Scala will open its 2022-23 season today with a performance of the Russian opera Boris Godunov, composed by Modest Mussorgsky. The premiere is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Georgia Meloni for the first time as head of government, the country’s president Sergio Mattarella and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
During the past month, its activists Ultima Generazione they had thrown soup on a Van Gogh painting in Rome, a black liquid on a Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna and flour on a sports car painted by the American pop art artist Andy Warhol and exhibited in Milan.
A BMW painted by renowned artist Andy Warhol was dusted with flour by climate change protesters in Milan — the latest in a string of stunts by activists targeting art pic.twitter.com/kP7I2zSX7R
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