Greta Thunberg launches foul-mouthed tirade at ‘fascist’ Italian authorities throughout pro-Palestine protest in Rome – days after local weather activist was banned from Venice

Greta Thunberg has launched a foul-mouthed tirade at the Italian government today during a pro-Palestine protest in Rome – just days after being banned from Venice. 

In a speech to the crowd, the climate activist branded Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s government f****** fascist’ and said she felt ‘physically repulsed’ thinking about the ‘war criminals in charge’. 

The speech follows Thunberg being banned from Venice after dumping green dye in the Grand Canal alongside Extinction Rebellion activists. 

In a speech delivered in the Italian capital today, the 22-year-old campaigner addressed her fellow protestors and said: ‘I could tell you all in detail exactly how physically repulsed I feel and how heartbroken I feel every time I think about the war criminals in charge, including your fascist f****** government.’ 

She continued: ‘Italy is one of the most complicit countries in this genocide when it comes to financial, military, political and social support to Israel while they are conducting massacres, ecocide, genocide – everything you can think of. 

‘So you have a responsibility to continue showing up on the streets, to continue boycotting, blocking, organising.’ 

Her obscene speech was greeted with cheers from the packed crowd in Rome as hundreds rallied for the pro-Palestine protest which swarmed the streets outside the Colosseum.    

On November 24, Thunberg was issued with a €150 (£130) fine and a 48-hour restriction on entering Venice after participating in multiple protests and dumping dye into the Grand Canal in the northeastern Italian city. 

Greta Thunberg called the Italian government ‘f****** fascist’ today in a foul-mouthed tirade as part of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome 

Crowds outside the Colosseum bearing signs attacking Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and her government

The 22-year-old campaigner said she felt ‘physically repulsed’ when she thought about the ‘war criminals in charge’ [of Italy]

Protestors from Extinction Rebellion targeted 10 sites around Italy to coincide with the end of the Cop30 United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil, where countries failed to agree on phasing out fossil fuels. 

Thunberg attended the group’s Venice demonstration, where activists dumped an environmentally harmless dye into the city’s largest channel, turning it green. 

A banner that read ‘Stop Ecocide’ was hung up at the Rialto Bridge across the Grand Canal. 

The campaigners also staged a flash-mob protest in which activists, dressed in red with veils concealing their faces, walked slowly through groups of tourists. 

Back in September, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni had called on Greta Thunberg’s ‘Freedom Flotilla’ to immediately stop their mission as it neared the shores of Gaza.

Posting a statement to X on Tuesday, Giorgia Meloni said that insisting on a confrontation with Israel would upset the current ‘fragile balance’ that could lead to peace based on a plan proposed by Donald Trump aimed at ending the war.

‘A hope of agreement has finally opened up to end the war and the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population and to stabilize the region. A fragile balance, which many would be happy to disrupt,’ the Italian PM said. 

‘I fear that the flotilla’s attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this. 

Giorgia Meloni (pictured in New York on September 24) had previously urged Greta Thunberg’s ‘Freedom Flotilla’ trying to deliver aid to Gaza to immediately stop their mission 

Greta Thunberg and a crew member flash victory signs from their ship, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel’s naval blockade, as they sailed off Crete island, Greece, on September 25

‘Also for this reason, I believe the Flotilla should stop now and accept one of the various proposals put forward for the delivery of the aid,’ she added.

Meloni also said that any other choice could fuel the conflict in Gaza further.

Her remarks come after the Global Sumud Flotilla said Italy had informed it on Tuesday that the naval frigate shadowing it would soon issue a radio call, offering participants the opportunity to abandon ship and return to shore before reaching a ‘critical zone’.

The international flotilla said it would continue to sail onwards with over 40 civilian boats carrying parliamentarians, lawyers and activists, including Swedish climate activist Thunberg, aiming to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave. 

On October 1, the flotilla was detained by the Israeli military some 80 miles from Gaza.

Thunberg was also deported by Israel back in June when the ship she was travelling on with 11 other people, the Madleen, was stopped by the military.