Banner at Champions League Match in Naples

Greenpeace climbers abseiled from the roof of Naples’ San Paolo stadium during half-time in the home team’s game against Arsenal, unfurling a vertical banner right above the VIP stand reading “Giustizia per Cristian” (Justice for Cristian). Christian is one of the 'Arctic 30' currently detained in Russia following a peaceful protest against Gapzrom's Arctic oil drilling plans last September. At the same time, a second team of climbers unfold a banner from the top of a large tower just outside the stadium’s entrance reading: “Gazprom quit the Arctic”. Gazprom, Russian oil giant and one of the sponsors of the event, is racing to become the world’s first oil company to commercially exploit oil reserves in the ice-covered waters of the Arctic. The site where Gazprom is about to start oil extraction is ice-covered for two thirds of the year, with temperatures plunging to as low as minus 50C, violent storms and long periods of darkness during the winter months. Greenpeace is campaigning for a ban on offshore drilling in the Arctic, and for the uninhabited area around the North Pole to be declared a global sanctuary.