伊スカラ座入り口にペンキ、環境団体が抗議行動

【ミラノＡＦＰ＝時事】イタリア・ミラノで７日、由緒あるオペラ座「スカラ座」の入り口や外壁に環境活動家がペンキをかけた。欧州各地では、気候変動への注目を高めるため同様の抗議行動が相次いでいる。（写真は汚損されたスカラ座の入り口）
　７日夜は今シーズンの演目「ボリス・ゴドゥノフ」の初日の公演が予定されている。ジョルジャ・メローニ伊首相、セルジョ・マッタレッラ伊大統領、欧州委員会のウルズラ・フォンデアライエン委員長の出席が見込まれている。
　現場にいたＡＦＰの写真記者によると、「ラスト・ジェネレーション」所属の活動家５人が午前７時半過ぎ、バケツに入ったペンキをスカラ座の外壁やポーチの中にぶちまけた。
　うち２人は「ラスト・ジェネレーション：ガス・ゼロそして炭素ゼロ」と書かれた横断幕を広げた。
　警察は活動家を拘束した。
　スカラ座の関係者がホースで建物に水をかけると、水性ペンキは完全に落ちたように見えた。
　ラスト・ジェネレーションは、イタリア政府に対し、再生可能エネルギー関連の支出を増やし、炭素排出量を減らすよう求めている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/12/08-12:56）

Environmental activists hurled paint at the entrance of Milan's prestigious La Scala opera house on Wednesday, part of a series of recent protests across Europe to focus attention on climate change.
The early morning protest came ahead of the gala opening of the new season on Wednesday night, with a scheduled performance of Boris Godunov.
Five climate activists from the Last Generation group threw buckets of paint onto the facade of the building and inside the portico shortly after 7:30 am (0630 GMT), according to an AFP photographer at the scene.
Two people unfurled banners reading Last Generation - No Gas and No Carbon.
We decided to stain La Scala with paint to ask the politicians who will attend the performance tonight to pull their heads out of the sand and intervene to save the population, wrote Last Generation in a statement.
Police quickly arrived on the scene -- where bright pink, electric blue and turquoise paint had splattered onto the sidewalk -- and the activists were detained and taken away in police cars.
A team of cleaners from La Scala then began hosing off the building and the non-permanent paint appeared to have been entirely removed.
Last Generation called on Italy to invest more in renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.
In order to avert the misery of its own people and safeguard people, homes and businesses, which are at risk from increasingly frequent floods and heat waves, the government must act now, it said, referring to last month's landslide caused by torrential rains on the island of Ischia that killed 12 people.
Most recently, climate activists have targeted artworks inside museums throughout Europe in protests they say are designed not to damage the works but to focus attention on environmental disaster.
They have targeted masterpieces such as the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer at The Hague's Mauritshuis museum, Klimt's Death and Life in Vienna's Leopold Museum or Van Gogh's Sunflowers at London's National Gallery, hurling soup or other food at the paintings behind glass.
Last month at an exhibit in Milan, they covered a car repainted by Andy Warhol with flour.
La Scala's opening night gala is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Sergio Mattarella and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In light of the war in Ukraine, the choice of Boris Godunov -- an opera by Modest Mussorgsky sung in Russian that tells the story of an autocratic ruler and his people -- was controversial.
Ukraine's consul in Milan had protested the choice, calling it a propaganda coup for Russia.
Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov will sing the title role.