Climate activists strike at Barcelona's Egyptian Museum
'Futuro Vegetal' protesters paint mummy showcase with fake "blood and fuel"
Two climate activists from the 'Futuro Vegetal' organization (Green future) painted the showcase of one of the mummies exhibited at Barcelona's Egyptian Museum with fake "blood and fuel" on Sunday.
The protestors threw paint at other pieces on display before gluing themselves to the walls while holding a banner.
"+2.5ºC Climate Justice. COPca-Cola," the text in capital letters read, referring to the main sponsor of the COP27 Climate Conference currently taking place in Egypt.
"While the UN expects 2.5ºC scenarios, our political leaders paid by Coca-Cola, an ecocidal corporation, continue to sit down to negotiate," one of the activists from 'Futuro Vegetal' said.
This is not the first time the group strikes at a Spanish museum, as on November 5, members of the same organization glued themselves to Madrid's Museo del Prado exposition of Francisco de Goya's 'Majas' paintings.
"Let's sink with blood and fuel the showcases of the Barcelona Egyptian Museum to warn of the climate emergency," the demonstrators said during their performance.
"We cannot continue to let governments clean their images with COP summits to scam citizens without taking any real measures," they added after throwing a black liquid representing fuel and a red jam symbolizing blood.
The two activists have already been identified by Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra police.
This is the group's first protest in Catalonia, which comes after the ones seen at London's National Gallery, Rome's Palazzo Bonaparte, and Florence's Uffizi Gallery, to mention a few.