Environmental activists from Future Plant vandalized with Red and black paint on the facade of Lionel Messi’s mansion on the Spanish island of Ibiza to denounce the “responsibility of the rich” in the climate crisis.
In a statement, the group said that with this action of “non-violent civil disobedience” wants to denounce the government’s continuation of policies that aggravate the climate crisis, “as well as the unequal responsibility for it.”
The activists displayed a banner on the facade of the house and also in the garden with slogans in English that proposed helping the planet, eating a rich person and abolishing the Police.
Messi’s house was vandalized with a clear message: “Eat the rich”
Environmentalists also recalled the report of Oxfam 2023 which points out that the richest 1% of the world’s population generated the same amount of carbon emissions in 2019 as the poorest two-thirds of humanity, despite the fact that the most vulnerable communities are those suffering the “worst consequences” of this crisis.
According to this group, the mansion of Messi is a “illegal” construction that the footballer acquired for the “exorbitant” figure of €11,000,000.
He spokesperson for Futuro Vegetal, Bilbo Bassaterrasaid that “the law does not work equally for everyone”, since this week almost 100 people have been evicted 200 workers in Ibizawhile the PP “with the help of Vox is planning the legalization of illegal buildings in exchange for payment.”
The organization also criticized the Policewhich he considers a “repressive tool” to maintain “an order of things where the ruling classes know they are unpunished”, as well as the promotion that the Government Balearic tourism as “solution to all the islands’ problems”.
It is the second summer that Vegetable Future chooses Ibiza to be the centre of its protest actions. Last season it sprayed the cherries in the nightclub with black paint Pachabroke into the luxury ‘beach club’ Blue Marlin from Cala Jondal with protest banners reading ‘Your luxury our climate crisis’.
He also threw paint at a private jet, a Lamborghini and the megayacht Kaos, owned by Nancy Walton Lauriethe billionaire heiress of the company Walmart.
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