A group of vandals smeared the facade of Lionel Messi’s house in Spain with red and black paint, claiming to be an attempt to defend the environment.
Environmental activists known as the Green Future movement defaced the facade of the house. The Argentine star In red and black paint, before raising banners denouncing what they called: the involvement of the rich in the current climate crises.
Despite leaving Spain three years ago, by playing in Paris Saint-Germain The Frenchman and then the American Inter Miami, the Argentine legend kept his private home on the Spanish island of “Ibiza”, which opens the door to the possibility of his return to settle in Spain after retiring from football.
Vandals destroy Lionel Messi’s house
The movement said in a statement that its action against Lionel Messi’s house was “non-violent civil disobedience”, with the aim of pushing the government to back down from policies that exacerbate the climate crisis and “disproportionate responsibility.”
Activists put up a banner on the front of the attacker’s house and garden. Inter Miami The American currently, and the world and Copa America champion with Argentina, is the house where “La Pulga” spends part of his summer vacation, with strange slogans in English calling for helping the planet, attacking the rich and inciting the dismissal of the police.
It is worth noting that environmental activists recalled a report by Oxfam issued in 2023 that the richest class in the world, which represents 1% of the planet’s population, caused greater carbon emissions, more than the poorest two-thirds of humanity, even though the most vulnerable societies suffer the “worst consequences” of this crisis.
It is not yet known why this organization targeted the Argentine legend’s house specifically, but the search for fame and the pursuit of a person who has millions of followers around the world may have been the motive that made it proceed to tarnish the home of the former Barcelona striker.
