The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, a Renaissance masterpiece exhibited at the Uffizi, was covered with images of the Campi Bisenzio floods, attached with paper tape to the case protecting the painting.
Two militants from the Last Generation took action, reporting this by explaining that the museum staff made the tourists leave, turned off the lights and closed the room.
The police reached the two activists and stopped them.
Now I'm at the Uffizi station.
At 5pm a solidarity demonstration will be held in front of the barracks.
Botticelli's Birth of Venus was covered "with images of the reality in which we are sinking - explains Ultima Generazione -, increasingly frequent floods and landslides which cause damage to homes, schools, hospitals and roads on the one hand, unimaginable droughts on the other ".
Today's gesture, i.e. the posting of images with scotch tape, will be defined as a crime - explains Ultima Generazione - with the new Ecoproteste law, which deserves up to 6 months in prison.
"I am a family man and a social-health worker - declared Giordano in a statement prepared before the blitz and released after -. Today I have chosen to contravene my obligation to stay and to break the law again, risking prison to keep faith to my promise to do everything possible to protect life. The Government continues to pretend that the fields are not burned in January, that water will not be a problem this summer, that the houses destroyed by floods are accidental events and not caused by human choices. And instead of dealing with these real problems, it makes absurd laws."
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