Spanish activists arrested for throwing painting in Barcelona

Climate activists stained the Sacred Baracada Family Basilica with red and black paint on Sunday to express their outrage in Summer forest fires That they have devastated stripes of Spain, said the activist group of the vegetable future.

In a video, the group published on social networks, police officers are seen arresting two protesters while shouting for “climatic justice.”

The activists said in the legend of the post that their demonstration was aimed at protesting the “complicity” of the government in forest fires that burned the Iberian Peninsula in southern Spain. They also said that approximately 70% of the country’s forest fires are related to livestock agriculture, citing the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Spanish Foods. News themezone could not independently confirm that statistic, but the Spanish government has held several meetings in recent weeks to respond to fires and address what the leadership of the nation has called a “climatic emergency.”

The Sagrada Familia, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudíis one of Barcelona’s main tourist attractions.

Vegetable future alleges that the Spanish government has taken insufficient measures on climate change, particularly to quell the recent fire clutch that has caused extensive damage.

The fires have left four people dead and devastated by about 870.00 acres of land in the last fifteen days, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). According to EFFIS data, more than 280 individual fires have burned almost 1 million land acres in Spain since the beginning of 2025, with the amount of burned surface much higher than in any other year of the last decade.

The Government of Spain called on the fires “one of the largest environmental catastrophes” that the country has witnessed in recent memory and recognized a link with climate change. A large heat wave that hit Europe this summer fed destructive forest fires in multiple countries, with Greece, France, Portugal and Türkiye, all contending with severe fires, in addition to Spain.

This weekend he saw the scope of the problem back in Spain, with the Director of Civil Protection Services, Virginia Barcones, saying on Saturday that the emergency was “coming to an end.”

Vegetable future, which has links with similar groups abroad, has staged dozens of similar protests, including one in 2022 when they hit their hands to the paintings of the Spanish teacher Francisco de Goya in the Museum of Prado in Madrid.

The painting was also thrown into a super yacht in IbizaAccording to the reports, belonging to Nancy Walton Laurie, the multimillion -dollar heiress of the American retail giant Walmart and a mansion of the former star of FC Barcelona Lionel Messi in Ibiza.

The Spanish Police said last year that they had arrested 22 members of the vegetable future, including the two who participated in Prado’s protest and the three main leaders of the group.

Some of the demonstration approaches to the activist group have reflected in climatic protests in other parts of Europe. In the United Kingdom, environmental activists were imprisoned last year by demonstrations that included Splashing a Van Gogh paint with soup. Other activists in the United Kingdom have splashed works of art with painting, buildings sprayed with false blood and Stones sprayed in Stonehenge With orange painting in efforts to raise awareness about climate change.

• Climate change
• Forest fire
• Spain