A judge has described as "noble" the
aims of three people who blocked traffic on Bologna's ring road
on November 2 to highlight the need to tackle the climate
crisis.
The members of the Ultima Generazione (UG - Last Generation)
civil-disobedience group were found guilty of private violence
and interruption of a public service and sentenced to six months
in jail for the protest.
But the judge accepted that the three had mitigating
circumstance and the explanation of the ruling released on
Tuesday said that they "certainly did not act to satisfy a
personal and selfish interest, but for a higher, noble and
altruistic purpose, namely the protection of the environment".
The explanation added that there is a "concrete and increasingly
alarming risk" of the environment "being irreversibly
compromised due to the ongoing climate change".
The Bologna road block was only part of a long series of
controversial acts of civil-disobedience staged by the UG to
draw attention to the consequences of global heating caused by
human greenhouse-gas emissions.
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