The demands and protests for the environmental policies of the governments continue. After the Mona Lisa, Sunflowers or Massacre in Korea, it is the turn of the La Scala theater in Milan. Five activists from the Última Generación organization have been arrested for throwing white paint at the façade of the central Milanese theater.
In the past month, the same group has poured soup on a Van Gogh painting in Rome, poured black liquid on a Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna and floured a sports car painted by American pop artist Andy Warhol on display in Milan.
The acts that took place this Wednesday respond to the latest policies of the Meloni Government on "the dismantling of coal plants by 2025 and the commitment to stop building thermal power plants," they say from the protest group.
The protest took place shortly before the start of the 'prima', the lyrical season, and to which both the Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, and the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, would have confirmed their attendance today at the 'premiere ' from the opera 'Boris Godunov', according to some media.
The agents who were around the area quickly moved towards Via Filodrammatici where they arrested the activists. The cleaning workers began to clean up the remains of paint, while those arrested repeated: "It is the only way to guarantee the future of your children."
Although the claim has not lasted more than half an hour, the protesters have declared that "we have decided to stain the facade of La Scala with paint to ask the politicians who attend tonight's show to intervene and save the population."
They have also criticized that the rulers attend a spectacle within the reach of a few while, through their inactivity, they allow periods of drought and other climatic disasters to continue, from which "only a few will be able to escape disaster."
