Activists paint Barça store with red paint to denounce links to 'genocide'

After tinting the Sagrada Familia basilica red yesterday, Futuro Vegetal targeted a store of FC Barcelona for a new protest action on Tuesday morning. 

The group threw red paint at the facade of a club shop "for its complicity in the genocide in Palestine and in Congo," the group explained in a social media post.

Barça's main sponsor is music streaming platform Spotify, and the group point out that Spotify's CEO "led a funding round of of nearly €850 million in a startup that develops military technology used by the Israeli government in the Palestinian genocide."

The club also revealed a new four-year sponsorship with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo this summer. Futuro Vegatal say it is "shameful" that Barça collaborates with an administration that "perpetuates the cycle of violence against its own population for neocolonial interests."

The activist group made a call for freedom and self-determination. "The situation in Congo is worsening due to the interests of the Rwandan, Congolese, and Ugandan governments, which act as champions of extractive multinationals like Samsung and Apple in the region," they say.

Before targeting the Sagrada Familia, the group also targeted Burger King, calling the fast food chain "exploiters."