Climate activists waded into Rome’s well-known Trevi Fountain over the weekend and dumped coal in its water to protest the usage of fossil fuels.

About 10 protesters from the group Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) used the gesture to say that local weather change precipitated the lethal floods hitting Italy’s Emilia-Romagna area, in accordance to German broadcaster DW News.  

Police intervened shortly after the stunt started and eliminated the activists from the blackened waters of the 18th-century Baroque fountain.

“Enough of these absurd attacks on our artistic heritage,” Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri wrote on Twitter in Italian.

“Today the Fountain of Trevi was smeared. Expensive and complex to restore, hoping that there is no permanent damage. I invite activists to involvement in public discussion without putting the monuments at risk,” he mentioned, in response to a translation by The Washington Times achieved with laptop help.

At least 14 folks died and hundreds extra have been displaced final week after heavy rains flooded native waterways and enabled landslides within the northeastern a part of Italy.

Some Italian officers have mentioned {that a} prolonged drought in Emilia-Romagna that preceded the flooding had left the soil too onerous to have the ability to take up the downpour, in accordance to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The local weather activists claimed that 25% of properties in Italy are weak to floods.

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