Florence, new Latest Generation blitz, the Region building has been defaced:«No more fossil fuel subsidies» – The video

In its statement, the collective points out that "the Italian state pays 18.8 billion a year in public money to encourage fossil fuels"

Last Generation never stops.And this time he smears the door of the Regional Council of Tuscany, in Florence.This morning, around 8 am, four people - a man, two boys and a girl - threw yellow and red paint against the facade of Panciantichi Palace and displayed a banner with the message:«Stop fossil subsidies» with which Ultima Generazione launches an appeal that public money not be used to finance investments in fossil fuels, including natural gas.Specifically, the action in the Tuscan capital expresses the environmentalist collective's opposition to the implementation of the Piombino regasifier. The two 21 year olds, including the spokesperson Simone Ficicchia, the 23 year old, and the 42 year old who then sat down in front of the defaced building, were taken away by the Carabinieri while they were passively resisting and were reported by the judicial authority in a state of freedom for various crimes, while the fire extinguishers used in the demonstration of dissent were seized by the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Florence.

«Almost 19 billion a year in incentives for fossil fuels»

«We don't pay for the fossil!This varnish will no longer be there tomorrow, but the hands of our political class will remain stained with blood if in the coming years it continues to finance fossil fuels with public subsidies", said Ficicchia in front of the Palazzo della Regione Toscana.While in its press release, the collective points out that «the Italian state pays 18.8 billion a year in public money to encourage fossil fuels. In 2021, more than 40 billion euros were invested in environmentally harmful subsidies (SAD)."The blitz comes a few weeks after the group's other action in Florence, which had defaced the Mef headquarters on January 22nd to ask for a stop to coal and 20GW of renewables as soon as possible.