Two climate activists launched red painting on the facade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Sunday to protest the inaction in the face of the “climate crisis” which, according to environmentalists, favored recent forest fires having ravaged Spain.
In a video published by Futuro Vegetal on social networks, we see two activists of the association arrested by security agents after having sprayed with painting the bottom of a column of the famous cathedral, shouting: “Climate justice”.
“By this protest, the ecological collective denounces the absence of government measures against the climate crisis and its repercussions on fires that devastated the peninsula and a large part of Europe this summer,” said Futuro Vegetal in a statement.
The Sagrada Familia, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) but still unfinished, is one of the main attractions of the tourist town of Barcelona.
350,000 hectares burned
Spain underwent a wave of dramatic forest fires in August that caused the death of four people and ravaged more than 350,000 hectares. These fires constitute “one of the greatest environmental disasters” that the country has known in recent years, according to the left government, which has linked their magnitude to climate change.
Futuro Vegetal has produced dozens of similar protests in recent years, denounced as vandalism by many museums, including one in 2022 where his activists stuck their hands with glue to the frames of the paintings of the Spanish master Francisco de Goya at the Museum of Prado, in Madrid.
