O homem que realizou este acto por volta das 16:30 desapareceu de repente no meio da multidão de turistas deixando para trás um monte de panfletos. A fonte que reutiliza a água num ciclo contínuo, logo começou a jorrar água vermelha, oferecendo um espectáculo inesquecível para os diversos turistas que ali se encontravam e que logo começaram a tirar fotografias.
Os panfletos deixados ao lado da fonte assumiam o acto de pintar o monumento a um grupo ainda desconhecido e chamado de “FTM Futurist Action 2007” (FTM Acção Futurista 2007).
Nos panfletos este grupo assumiam que lutavam contra “tudo e todos com um espírito de violência saudável” e que esta acção pretendia transformar “a sociedade burguesa cinzenta num triunfo de cor”. Aqui proclamavam também o seu protesto pelos gastos extremos feitos na organização do Festival de Cinema de Roma , criando a analogia dos seus actos à passadeira vermelha do Festival.
October 19th, the waters of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain turned blood red when a man threw paint into the basin in a bizarre act of vandalism apparently inspired by the Futurists of the early 20th century.
The man struck at around 4.30 pm and then disappeared into the crowd of tourists, leaving behind a pile of leaflets. The fountain, which re-uses the same water in a continuous cycle, soon started spurting red water into the air from its jets, providing an unprecedented spectacle which tourists immediately began photographing.
The leaflets found beside the fountain claimed that the coloring of the monument had been carried out by ‘FTM Futurist Action 2007,’ a group which has not been heard of before.
The leaflets state that the group aims to battle against “everything and everyone with a spirit of healthy violence” and to turn this “grey bourgeois society into a triumph of color.” As well, the leaflets proclaim that the red paint was a protest for expenses incurred in organizing the Rome Film Festival and symbolically referred to the event’s red carpet.
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