Almost a dozen activists staged a surprise action this afternoon in front of the lions' façade of the Congress of Deputies, throwing cans of red paint to protest the Government's climate policy. Eight have been immediately detained by the Police.
When the plenary session of Congress voted to validate the pension reform decree, a group of between eight and nine people from the Extinction Rebellion, Futuro Vegetal and Rebelión Científica collectives began to shout "climate justice" and throw cans of biodegradable red paint against the facade of Congress.
During the action, which lasted a few minutes, the protesters have launched proclamations such as "criminals rule us" and have lamented the effects that climate change is producing.
The activists have defended this action and anticipate new protests as long as the Government does not take action, understanding that they have no "alternative" left when there are all kinds of scientific articles warning of the climate crisis and "they do nothing."
In fact, a year ago, the same groups of activists carried out another similar action, for which 15 of them are now being investigated, accused of crimes of damage and public disorder, as they have been informed today in the court of investigation number 30, in previous statements.
Two of the activists who have participated in the new disobedience action on the steps of Congress had been hours before in the Plaza de Castilla courts, where they have abided by their right not to testify, as reported as soon as they left their appointment. .
"I would do it again a thousand times," argued the environmentalist Belén Díaz Collante, before participating in the protest in front of the Lower House building for which she has been arrested along with seven other activists, as explained by Rebelión Científica. .
If on April 6, 2022 this group of scientists and activists stained the facade of the Congress of Deputies with fake blood -a preparation of water and beetroot- to demand climate action from political leaders, on this occasion, almost a year later, He has used red paint.
"The actions will continue to take place because we cannot do anything else," said Víctor de Santos, a spokesman for Rebellion Científica who participated in the protest this morning but was not arrested.
"As scientists we have published all kinds of articles and nothing is done. A year has passed since the action in the same place throwing away biodegradable paint that washes away with water and our government has done nothing," added the environmentalist.
"Another IPCC report was published, and our government still does not act and it is not only that it does not act, but that it acts to criminalize us, to repress us. We are fed up, we do not know what else to do," he has sentenced.
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