Inter Miami star, and Argentina's captain Lionel Messi demanded €50,000 compensation due to environmental activists caused damages after spraying his villa in Spain, Spanish media reported on Friday.
Last week, members from Futuro Vegetal spread Messi's home in Ibiza with red and black paint.
In a video shared online, they painted banners in English saying ‘Help the planet, eat the rich, abolish the police.’
They claimed the €11 million property was constructed illegally and broke environmental laws.
The spokesperson Bilbo Bassaterra said: “This is just another example of how the law does not work equally for everyone."
10 days later, lawyers for Messi filed a lawsuit demanding €50,000 in compensation.
However Bassaterra turned down the claims, saying the paint ‘comes off with water’ and that ‘at most you will have to scrub a little.’
He said that ‘if even you had to repaint it’, the cost of the work would not amount to €50,000.
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