Turin, new Extinction Rebellion blitz:manure in front of the Piedmont Region.«The institutions wake up to the water crisis» – The photos

The activists' complaint:«We are in a very serious water crisis.The Region and the government are pushing the accelerator towards climate collapse"

After the blitz at the Rai headquarters in Turin, a new coup by Extinction Rebellion in the Piedmontese capital.At dawn today, March 31, some members of the environmentalist group dumped tons of manure at the entrance to the skyscraper where the headquarters of the Piedmont Region is located in Turin, as a sign of protest for the lack of political intervention on the issue of drought and on the crisis of the water world.The group also hung a banner quoting Way of the field by Fabrizio De André:«Nothing grows from the Region, flowers grow from the manure»."We are still in the s...", they added, recalling the slogan similar to the one that appeared on a banner displayed in 2022 in front of the Gran Madre bridge to denounce the state of drought on the Po.«We are in a very serious water crisis, a symptom of a much broader systemic problem, and the Piedmont Region together with the Italian government is literally pressing the accelerator towards climate collapse».Mountains without snow, dry rivers, countries without water, drastic collapses of the national agricultural harvest.A year later, Extinction Rebellion returns to reiterate the same message.«If nothing grows from the Region, flowers grow from the manure!», is the complaint of Extinction Rebellion.«We are here dressed in flowers because we know that a rebirth is still possible – observes one of the activists -.Faced with the Region's failures to comply, we rebel by asking for action:until it's done, like flowers we will continue to grow from this shit!Digos officers from the police station intervened on site.