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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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