Spanish activists arrested the paint on Sagrada Familia in Barcelona in protest against forest fires

Climate activists have disturbed Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona with red and black paint on Sunday to express anger in Summer forest fires The Potoro Group for Vegetable Activist said.

in video The group that was published on social media, police officers were seen stopping two demonstrators while screaming for “climate justice”.

Activists said in the Post’s comment that their demonstration aims to protest the “government’s complicity” in the forest fires that confused the Iberian Peninsula in southern Spain. They also said that nearly 70 % of the country’s forest fires are linked to livestock cultivation, citing the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. CBS News was unable to confirm this statistics independently, but the Spanish government was held Several meetings In recent weeks to respond to fire and address what the country’s leadership described “climatic emergency”.

The Sagrada Familia, designed by the Catalan architect Anthony GodiIt is one of the main tourist attractions in Barcelona.

Futuro Vegetal claims that the Spanish government has taken insufficient measures on climate change, especially to suppress the last astringent of fires that caused severe damage.

Fires have left four dead people and destroyed about 870,00 acres of land in the past two weeks alone, according to the European fire information system (EFFIS). More than 280 individual fires burned nearly a million acres of lands throughout Spain since the beginning of 2025, according to Effis dataAlthough the amount of the burning space is much higher than it was in any other year of the past decade.

The Spain government described the fires as “one of the largest environmental disasters” that the country witnessed in modern memory, and recognized climate change. A major heat wave hit Europe this summer nourishing destroyed forest fires in multiple countries, with Greece, France, Portugal and Turkey, all of which compete with severe fire, as well as Spain.

The end of this week witnessed that the scope of the problem is receding in Spain, where the Director of Civil Protection Services Virginia Parions says on Saturday that the state of emergency “is close to its end.”

Futuro Vegetal, which is associated with similar groups abroad, has organized dozens of similar protests, including one in 2022 when they convenient their hands on the tires of the paintings made by Mr. Francisco de Goya in the Madrid Museum Prado.

The paint was also I was thrown into a super yacht in IbizaAnd according to what was reported to Nancy Walton Lori, the inheritance of the billionaire for the American retail giant Wal -Mart and the former Barcelona star Lionel Messi in Ibiza.

Spanish police said last year that they had arrested 22 members of Futureo Vegetal, including the two who participated in Brado’s protest and the three main leaders of the group.

Some of the methods of clarification of the group active in climatic protests were reflected elsewhere in Europe. In the United Kingdom, environmental activists were imprisoned last year for demonstrations that included Spray Van Gogh board with soup. Other activists in the United Kingdom have artistic works raised with paint and buildings that were sprayed with fake blood Spray stones in Stonenhab With orange paint in efforts to raise awareness about climate change.