The daring stunt that is part of their efforts to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis.
As they did so, a group of 10 other protestors blocked the traffic in the other direction.
The group held up a banner declaring “We Won’t Pay for Fossil Fuels”, referring to their campaign to stop public investment in, and subsidies of, fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels are the biggest source of the greenhouse emissions causing the climate crisis.
Firefighters had to intervene to get the abseiling activists down.
All the protestors have been reported to criminal prosecutors as part of the Italian Government’s crackdown on these types of stunts.
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