Climate activists on Tuesday spray-painted a mansion on the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza belonging to Argentina soccer star, Lionel Messi, to spotlight the “responsibility of the rich for the climate crisis.”
Campaigners from the group, Futuro Vegetal, launched a video displaying two members standing in entrance of the home close to the cove of Cala Tarida on Ibiza’s western coast holding a banner that learn: “Help the Planet — Eat the Rich — Abolish the Police.”
The activists then sprayed the white facade of the constructing with crimson and black paint.
In a press release, the group mentioned they wished to indicate “the responsibility of the rich for the climate crisis” by focusing on the mansion which they mentioned was an “illegal construction.”
Futuro Vegetal cited a 2023 Oxfam report that discovered that the richest one per cent of the world’s inhabitants generated the identical quantity of carbon emissions in 2019 because the poorest two-thirds of humanity, regardless that essentially the most weak communities are those struggling the “worst consequences” of this disaster.
Messi, who at present performs for Inter Miami within the United States, reportedly purchased the property on the Mediterranean island — which features a spa with a sauna and a cinema room — in 2022 from a Swiss businessman for round 11 million euros ($12 million).
But the mansion lacked a certificates of occupancy, a doc issued by a Local Government company certifying it’s in a habitable situation, as a result of building of a number of rooms within the property with no licence, in accordance with Spanish media reviews.
Futuro Vegetal, which is linked to related worldwide teams, has staged dozens of comparable protests, together with one in 2022 the place they glued their arms to frames of work by Spanish grasp Francisco de Goya at Madrid’s Prado museum.
Last yr, activists from the group spray-painted a superyacht moored in Ibiza with crimson and black paint that reportedly belonged to Nancy Laurie, the billionaire heiress of US retail large, Walmart.
Spanish police in January mentioned they’d arrested 22 members of the Futuro Vegetal, together with the 2 who staged the protest on the museum and the group’s high three leaders.
AFP
