Three environmental activists from the group Last Generation briefly interrupted the Rome Marathon in Italy, this Sunday, before being detained and taken by police to a police station, the group said in a statement. “This morning at 9am local [5h em Brasília], three citizens (…) interrupted the passage of the Rome Marathon. The municipal police intervened at 9:10 am, moved the protesters to the side of the street and then took them to the police station,” the statement said.
The group denounced “a winter marked by anomalies with temperatures reaching 25ºC in some areas” and fears a spring and summer in northern Italy with “deaths at work due to the heat, deaths in cities because they are uninhabitable”.
Mida, 26, one of the activists who stopped the marathon, said she wanted to “sound the alarm because we are going to experience an intense drought.” The group calls for the creation of a public “reparation fund” of 20 billion euros ($21.7 billion or around 100 billion reais) for “all people suffering damage caused by climate change.”
According to experts, climate change induced by human activity increases the intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological phenomena, such as heat waves, droughts or forest fires.