Two Italian climate change activists who glued themselves to the base of one of the Vatican Museums' most famous statues must pay almost 30,000 euros ($32,232) in damages and costs, a Vatican criminal court ruled on Monday.
Guido Viero and Laura Zorzini of the Ultima Generazione group pulled the stunt against the Laocoon statue in August. The sculpture depicts a priest from Troy who tried to warn fellow citizens against taking in the Greek's wooden horse.
The Tribunal of the Vatican City State, which has lay rather than religious judges, told Viero and Zorzini to jointly pay 28,148 euros in damages to Vatican authorities, and 1,000 euros in legal costs, a court ruling showed. They were also handed suspended jail sentences of nine months each, plus fines of around 1,500 euros each, also suspended. A third activist was given a suspended 120-euro penalty.
Ultima Generazione has performed several high profile protests in Italy, often targeting artworks or monuments. Last month, they poured diluted charcoal into Rome's iconic
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