Rome mayor slams newest “mindless” stunt.
Italian local weather activists poured black liquid into the waters of Bernini‘s Fountain of the 4 Rivers in Rome’s central Piazza Navona on Saturday afternoon.
The 4 activists, from the Ultima Generazione group, shouted slogans in opposition to fossil fuels as they dyed the fountain black with a vegetable-based carbon liquid.
The protesters had been met with a sea of insults and whistles from Roman onlookers and vacationers earlier than being dragged out of the Seventeenth-century fountain and brought away by police.
“Our future is as black as this water”. Local weather activists pour black liquid into the waters of Bernini’s Fountain of the 4 Rivers in Piazza Navona, amid a sea of insults from onlookers, earlier than being dragged out by Rome police.pic.twitter.com/YIDuSuhDR1
— Wished in Rome (@wantedinrome) Might 6, 2023
The town’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Twitter slammed the stunt as “one other mindless gesture defacing the monuments of Rome”, including: “It isn’t by placing the inventive heritage in danger that the surroundings is saved!”
The mayor ordered the fountain to be cleaned instantly and specialist technicians had been finishing up checks for any everlasting injury to the monument which was designed by Bernini in 1651.
Ancora un insensato gesto di sfregio sui monumenti di #Roma. Questa volta imbrattata la magnifica fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a #PiazzaNavona. Le lotte giuste diventano sbagliate se danneggiano i beni comuni. Non è mettendo a rischio il patrimonio artistico che si salva l’ambiente! pic.twitter.com/XM0CMUN8mf
— Roberto Gualtieri (@gualtierieurope) Might 6, 2023
The incident – the most recent in a sequence of comparable actions – got here a number of days after local weather activists stopped visitors on a central Rome avenue with a topless protest.
The Italian authorities lately proposed a legislation to make those that injury cultural landmarks choose up the invoice for the work required to revive the monuments they deface.
The Italian tradition minister Gennaro Sangiuliano introduced the transfer after local weather activists poured black liquid into the waters of the Seventeenth-century Barcaccia fountain on the Spanish Steps in Rome.
