Climate activists smeared Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica with red and black paint on Sunday to express outrage at summer forest fires that have ravaged swaths of Spain, the Futuro Vegetal activist group said.
In a video the group posted to social media, police officers are seen arresting two protesters as they shouted for "climate justice."
Activists said in the post's caption that their demonstration aimed to protest the government's "complicity" in the wildfires that scorched southern Spain's Iberian Peninsula. They also said roughly 70% of the country's wildfires are related to livestock farming, citing the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. CBS News wasn't able to independently confirm that statistic, but the Spanish government has held several meetings