Left-wing eco-mob trash Lionel Messi’s £10million household villa

Left-wing eco-mobsters have spray-painted Lionel Messi‘s £10million family home while claiming the rich are ‘responsible for the climate crisis’.

Climate activists released footage showing two members of their group standing outside the front of the Argentinian star’s Ibiza villa near the cove of Cala Tarida holding a banner that read: ‘Help the Planet – Eat the Rich – Abolish the Police.’

Campaigners from the group of Futuro Vegetal (Vegetable Future) sprayed the white facade of the building with red and black paint.

In a statement on X, the group said: We inked Messi’s mansion in Ibiza. The mansion is an illegal construction the footballer acquired for the exorbitant sum of EUROS 11 million.’

The group went on to add: ‘While the extreme right wing blames the crisis on immigrants and displays extreme violence towards them, people like us who fight for a better world clearly understand the problem is social inequality.’ 

Left-wing eco-mobsters have spray-painted Lionel Messi’s £10million family home in Ibiza, pictured

The climate group Futuro Vegetal sprayed the white facade of the building with red and black paint

Messi, who currently plays for Inter Miami in the US, reportedly bought the property for around 11 million euros

Futuro Vegetal cited a 2023 Oxfam report that found that the richest one percent of the world’s population generated the same amount of carbon emissions in 2019 as the poorest two thirds of humanity.

This is despite the fact that the most vulnerable communities are the ones suffering the ‘worst consequences’ of this crisis.

Messi, who currently plays for Inter Miami in the US, reportedly bought the property on the Mediterranean island – which includes a spa with a sauna and a cinema room – in 2022 from a Swiss businessman for around 11million euros (£10million).

But the mansion lacked a certificate of occupancy, a document issued by a local government agency certifying it is in a liveable condition, due the construction of several rooms in the property without a licence, according to Spanish media reports.

Futuro Vegetal, which is linked to similar groups internationally, has staged dozens of similar protests, including one in 2022 where they glued their hands to frames of paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya at Madrid’s Prado museum.

Last year activists from the group spray-painted a superyacht moored in Ibiza with red and black paint that reportedly belonged to Nancy Walton Laurie, the billionaire heiress of US retail giant Walmart.

Spanish police in January said they had arrested 22 members of the Futuro Vegetal, including the two who staged the protest at the Prado as well as the group’s top three leaders.

The eco mobsters pictured with a banner that reads: ‘Help the Planet – Eat the Rich – Abolish the Police’

Two members from the group pose in front of the footballer’s goal posts in his back garden

In a statement on X, the group said: ‘The mansion is an illegal construction the footballer acquired for the exorbitant sum of EUROS 11 million’

Futuro Vegetal has staged dozens of similar protests, including one in 2022 where they glued their hands to frames of paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya

Last year, Futuro Vegetal trashed Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie’s £241million superyacht Kaos by dousing it in red and black paint.

Protesters from the group sprayed the 360ft vessel using fire extinguishers as it lay moored in Ibiza just after 9am on Sunday.

Footage emerged of two eco zandals approaching the ‘Kaos’ and beginning to spray paint over it, as staff on board run out and attempt to wash it off with water.

After they defaced the superyacht, which belongs to the Walmart heiress who has an estimated $7.7bn fortune, the protesters were seen holding up a sign saying ‘You Consume Others Suffer’. 

A crewmember from a yacht nearby to Kaos told MailOnline the damage to the vessel will likely cost its owner ‘millions’ and slammed the ‘useless’ port security.