Rome, eco-vandals become “guests of honor” at the crowded Spin Time

The Barcaccia in Piazza di Spagna, the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona and then the Trevi Fountain and Palazzo Madama. Four “attacks” in just over a month, not counting the forced stops on the Raccordo and the Tangenziale. The Last Generation activists have become “familiar” with Rome, despite the harsh sentences against gestures that cause damage to the unique heritage of the capital and inconvenience its citizens, also expressed the mayor, Roberto Gualieri, who yesterday reiterated that “the cause is just, the protest is wrong. However, the Last Generation ecologists are “entering their home”. Yes, the illegally occupied and inhabited one in via di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme 55, better known as Spin Time Labs. The building occupied since 2013 that the Capitol would even want to buy to “stabilize” a “social experiment” that has hundreds of thousands of euros in arrears The meeting, as reported at the bottom of the press release published by Ultima Generazione on the occasion of the yesterday’s bombing (this time failed) at Palazzo Madama, will take place on May 29. In addition to the place and address, it specifies “Rione Esquilino Casa Occupita.” Hard to think about the case.

Not only have the “activities” of this group of ecologists been concentrated in the capital in the last month, but the day before yesterday, or the day after the “attack” on the Trevi Fountain, a curious note from the Capitoline councilors of the De left to Civica Ecologista, Michela Cicculli and Alessandro Luparelli invoked the opening “of a comparison. A moment to listen to the reasons that lead to sensationalist demonstrations to draw attention to an inescapable problem such as climate change”. A “friend” therefore of the Capitoline left in search of new proselytes. The same one who firmly holds the “command” of the Roman social movements and dictates the line on the management of the city’s assets – public and private. The umpteenth confirmation, yesterday, with a motion -surprisingly also voted by the Brothers of Italy- inviting the mayor to vacate the building occupied by Casapound on via Napoleone III and then acquire it and use it for “useful activities for the community” through the “world of associations”.

An impermeable path that Roberto Gualtieri’s Democratic Party chose, pleasing a left that now points to the ecological electoral quarry. “It is fair to underline the importance and the fight against climate change,” the mayor of Rome reiterated yesterday. With this type of protest, however, there is the risk of damaging highly valued monuments and forcing administrations to carry out very costly interventions, as well as a huge waste of water. Associating an important cause with forms of protest that do not attract the sympathy of the people risks harming the environmental cause. And to think that the City of Rome has filed a civil action against the raids of Last Generation, next Monday “guest of honor” on Spin Time, so no one is asking for their eviction. Otherwise.