Madrid (EFE).- The National Police have arrested a total of five Futuro Vegetal activists after spraying the facades of the PP headquarters, on Génova street, and the PSOE, on Ferraz street, with black paint, in a action against the climate policies of the main government and opposition parties.
Both protests, practically simultaneous, took place between six and seven in the afternoon this Monday, police sources have informed EFE.
At the Popular Party headquarters, three activists, two women aged 26 and 27 and a 48-year-old man, have covered the main door of the building with black paint sprayed with fire extinguishers, as well as a part of the façade at the height of the first plant.
An escort of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, witnessed this new action by Futuro Vegetal and was the one who alerted the Police.
The three participants have been arrested and charged with a crime of damage.
Painting at the headquarters of the PP and also of the PSOE
Meanwhile, on Ferraz street, a couple of activists have used the same “modus operandi” to protest against the PSOE headquarters.
In the same way they have emptied fire extinguishers filled with black paint with which they have covered the party logo and the door of the aforementioned headquarters.
In this case, the agents have arrested the activists accused of a crime of damages and another of resistance and disobedience.
Both protests are part of the “campaign of high-intensity nonviolent civil disobedience actions” launched by Futuro Vegetal to warn against the climate crisis and to ask for an end to aid to the meat industry, among others.
From the activist organization it has been indicated in a note that with these actions they want to “require the institutions to refer subsidies to the meat industry to socially and ecologically responsible alternatives.”
Futuro Vegetal accuses politicians of being “responsible for the plunder and contamination” of the agri-food and electricity corporations towards “common water resources” and asks society to “distrust” them and “retake political participation” to “claim the right to a habitable territory”.
As highlighted by this group, these actions are carried out a few weeks after the academic director of the Water Economy Forum, Estanislao Arana, warned at the UN Water Conference that “in seven years some 829,000 people will die in the planet by contaminated water and sanitation”.
Painting on the facade of the Congress
A dozen activists staged a surprise action a month ago in front of the Lions of Congress façade, throwing cans of red paint to protest the government’s climate policy, although the police immediately arrested them.
When the plenary session of Congress voted to validate the pension reform decree, a group of between 8 and 9 people from the collectives “Extinction rebellion”, “Colectivos Futuro Vegetal, and “Rebelión Científica” shouted “climate justice” and threw cans of biodegradable red paint against the facade of the Congress.
During the action, the protesters launched proclamations such as “criminals rule us” and lamented the effects that climate change is producing.