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Climate Change Protesters Target Vatican's Raccoon Statue

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A video grab from a footage made available by environmental activists, shows two members of Ultima Generazione, or Last Generation in English, glued their hands on the Roman statue of Laocoön and His Sons, one of the masterpieces of the Vatican Museums collection, to protest against climate change, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. The activists displayed a banner reading, "Last Generation No Gas No Coal" urging politicians to listen to the call from the scientific community and act against climate change. (Ultima Generazione Via AP)
In a video grab from footage released by an environmental activist, two people from Ultima Generazione shows a member. On Thursday 18 August 2022, the Last Her Generation glued their hands in English to a Roman statue of Laocoon and her sons, one of her masterpieces in the Vatican Museums collection, in protest against climate change. Activists say "Last Generation No Gas No Call" urged politicians to heed calls from the scientific community and act on climate change. (Ultima Generazione Via AP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME (AP) — Italian environmental activists stage second museum protest in months. On Thursday, I glued my hand to the base of one of the Vatican Museums' most important ancient sculptures, the Racoon.

The statue was not damaged, said environmental group Last His Generation. Vatican gendarmes removed his three protesters and were processed at an Italian police station. It was not clear if the Vatican's criminal prosecutor would eventually take up the case, as the Vatican has jurisdiction.

Protesters demand that the Italian government increase solar and wind power, stop exploration for natural gas and reopen Italy's old coal mines. They put up a banner on the base of the statue that read, "No Gas, No Coal."

Last month, protesters glued their hands to the glass window protecting Sandro Botticelli's "Spring" painting in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. In that case they were detained and in Florence he was ordered to stay for three years, Italian media said.

Last Generation said the group targeted a raccoon statue believed to have been carved in Rhodes between 40 and 30 BC because of the iconic story behind it. I was.

According to legend and the Vatican Museums' own website, Raccoon warned his fellow Trojans not to accept the wooden horse left by the Greeks during the Trojan War. The group said the climate crisis is a modern day warning that political leaders are ignoring.

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