Video shows Spanish activists vandalize yacht of Walmart heiress to protest climate change


Environmental activists spray-painted a superyacht in Ibiza on Sunday that they said belongs to the heiress of Walmart.

In a video posted on Twitter by the Spanish environmental group Futuro Vegetal, two activists are seen spraying the boat with red and black paint and displaying a banner that reads “You consume others suffer.”

“The richest 1% of the world population pollutes more than the poorest 50%,” the activists said in one of the of the videos posted. “They are condemning us to a future of pain, misery and desolation. They are destroying our planet, compromising the habitability of the land and everything, to lead a standard of living that goes beyond the limits of reason.”

See the video below.

The group said in a tweet that the yacht belongs to Nancy Walton Laurie, billionaire heiress of Walmart. Laurie, one of two daughters of Walmart co-founder Bud Walton, has a net worth of $8.8 billion, according to Forbes.

“We need to change the way they are doing things. It’s a question of life or death,” said a voice in the Futuro Vegetal video. “And already, to this day, it is an issue that is killing many people.”

The organization reported that the two protesters were detained by the Spanish Civil Guard on Sunday morning.

Activists by Spanish environmental group Futuro Vegetal spray paint a superyacht in Ibiza and hold a sign that says "You consume others suffer."

The group also contrasted the superyachts in the port belonging to the wealthy with the migrants that perished attempting to enter Europe.

“The Mediterranean is a cemetery of migrants,” the activists said in the video.

Last month, a fishing boat carrying up to 750 migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa capsized off the coast of Greece. Just over 100 were rescued alive.



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