Protestors Tell Bezos To Pay More Taxes Ahead of Venice Wedding
Venice, Italy, June 23 (Reuters) – Global Environmental Lobby Greenpeace on Monday, the American technology billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez, Venice, the protests against the famous wedding.
In addition to the event, which is expected to withdraw 200 guests, including US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and his son -in -law Jared Kushner, the scores of the stars, fashion and jobs were called “Wedding of the Century ..
However, some of the locals see the celebration as the last sign of the arrogant commodification of a beautiful but fragile city that has been invaded for a long time with tourism.
Greenpeace’s Hate of Hate of Elon ”(Musk) from the Greenpeace Italy and the UK group revealed a giant poster in St Mark’s Square with Bezos’s laughing picture and a sign: ın You can pay more taxes if you can rent Venice for your wedding.”
The local police came to talk to the activists before collecting the flag and to control the identity documents.
Simona Abbate, one of the protesters, said, “The problem is not a wedding, the problem is the system. We think that a city cannot rent a city because of its pleasure.”
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Mayor Luigi Brugnaro and Regional Governor Luca Zaia defended the wedding and argued that it would bring an economic decline to local enterprises, including motorized boats and gondolas operating numerous channels.
Zaia said the celebrations are expected to cost 20-30 million euros ($ 23-34 million).
Bezos will also donate great aid donations, including one million euros, for Corila, a Corriere Della Sera Newspaper of Italy and the Ansa News Agency on Sunday.
At the beginning of this month, anti -Bezos posters St. It was hung from Mark’s Bell Tower and the famous Rialto Bridge, and the locals threatened peaceful blouners against the event, saying that Venice needed VIPs and excessive tourism, but public services and housing.
Glitzy is kept confidential for the exact dates and places of the wedding, but the celebrations are expected to play for three days around 26-28 June.
(Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen, writing by Alvise Armelini, editing by Gavin Jones and Mark Heinrich)
