Climate activists on Tuesday focused a mansion owned by Argentine soccer icon Lionel Messi on the Spanish island of Ibiza, frightening a robust response from President Javier Milei of Argentina.
Members of the group Futuro Vegetal appeared in a video standing in entrance of Messi’s property close to Cala Tarida on Ibiza’s western coast. They held a banner proclaiming: “Help the Planet – Eat the Rich – Abolish the Police.”
The activists then sprayed the white facade of the constructing with pink and black paint.
In a press release, the group stated they needed to focus on “the responsibility of the rich for the climate crisis” by concentrating on the mansion, which they claimed was an “illegal construction.”
Futuro Vegetal cited a 2023 Oxfam report, which discovered that the richest 1% of the world’s inhabitants generated the identical quantity of carbon emissions in 2019 because the poorest two-thirds of humanity.
This disparity persists regardless of essentially the most susceptible communities struggling the “worst consequences” of this disaster, they stated.
Milei reacted furiously on X, previously Twitter, condemning “Communists who want to murder the rich and abolish the police to end climate change.”
“I stand with Messi’s family over this cowardly and crazy incident,” he added, urging Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s authorities to make sure the safety of Argentinians residing within the nation.
Glue on Goya
Messi, who presently performs for Inter Miami within the United States, reportedly bought 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).
However, the mansion lacked a certificates of occupancy, a doc issued by a neighborhood authorities company certifying it’s livable, because of the building of a number of rooms on the property with no license, based on Spanish media studies.
Futuro Vegetal, which is linked to comparable teams internationally, has staged dozens of comparable protests, together with one in 2022 the place they glued their fingers to the 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 pink and black paint that reportedly belonged to Nancy Walton Laurie, the billionaire heiress of U.S. retail large Walmart.
Spanish police in January stated that they had arrested 22 members of Futuro Vegetal, together with the 2 who staged the Prado protest and the group’s prime three leaders.
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