"Help the planet, eat the rich and abolish the police" - Messi's Ibiza home vandalised

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Leo Messi's house in Ibiza was vandalised by 'Futuro Vegetal' activists. With the slogan "Help the planet, eat the rich and abolish the police", they painted the Argentinian player's facade black and red. They denounce that people with high incomes are to blame for climate change.

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Environmental activists from 'Futuro Vegetal' have vandalised the outside of Leo Messi's mansion in Ibiza on Tuesday with red and black paint to denounce the "responsibility of the rich" in the climate crisis.
In a statement, the group said that with this action of "non-violent civil disobedience" they want to denounce the continuation by the government of policies that aggravate the climate crisis, "as well as the unequal responsibility for it".
The activists displayed a banner on the façade of the house and also in the garden with slogans in English proposing to help the planet, eat a rich person and abolish the police.
The environmentalists have recalled Oxfam's 2023 report which states that the richest 1% of the world's population generated the same amount of carbon emissions in 2019 as the poorest two thirds of humanity, despite the fact that the most vulnerable communities are the ones suffering the "worst consequences" of this crisis.
According to the group, Messi's mansion is an "illegal" construction that the footballer bought for an "exorbitant" 11 million euros.
The spokesman for 'Futuro Vegetal', Bilbo Bassaterra, has stated that "the law does not work the same for everyone" as this week almost 200 workers have been evicted in Ibiza, while the PP "together with VOX plan to legalise illegal buildings in exchange for payment".
The organisation has also criticised the police, which it considers a "repressive tool" to maintain "an order of things where the ruling classes know they can go unpunished", as well as the Balearic government's promotion of tourism as a "solution to all the islands' problems".
This is the second summer that 'Futuro Vegetal' has chosen Ibiza for its protest actions. Last season they sprayed black paint on the cherries of the Pacha discotheque and stormed the luxury beach club Blue Marlin in Cala Jondal with protest banners with the slogan: 'Your luxury, our climate crisis'.

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