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Italian environmental activists have staged their second museum protest in as many months as they glued their hands to the pedestal of one of the most important ancient sculptures in the Vatican museums.
Environmental group Last Generation said the statue was not damaged.
The three protesters were taken away by Vatican gendarmerie, and they were processed at the Italian police station.
In this statue we see Laocoon, the priest trying to warn the Trojans of the Greek conspiracy against Troy. He was ignored and Troy was conquered. Activists today are trying to warn humanity, but they are equally ignored and suppressed. #climateemergency #Rome pic.twitter.com/itVIsaWDPH
– latest generation (@UltimaGenerazi1) August 18, 2022
It is unclear whether Vatican criminal prosecutors will eventually take up the case, as they have jurisdiction in Vatican City.
Protesters are demanding that the Italian government increase solar and wind power, stop gas exploration and reopen Italy’s old coal mines.
They put a banner on the base of the statue saying “No gas, no coal”.
Protesters glued their hands to a glass window protecting Sandro Botticelli’s painting “Spring” at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence last month.
In this case, they were detained and ordered to leave Florence for three years, Italian media said.
A previous generation said the group targeted the Laocoon statue, which is believed to have been carved in Rhodes between 40 and 30 BC, because of the symbolic story behind it.
According to legend and the Vatican Museums’ own website, Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans not to accept the Trojan horse left by the Greeks during the Trojan War.
The group said the climate crisis was a modern-day warning that political leaders were not heeding.
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