Activist arrested for attacking Monet painting in Paris
Saturday, 1 June 2024 French police on Saturday arrested a climate activist who staged a protest attack on a priceless Claude Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, prosecutors said. Monet appears to be a favourite target for climate activists elsewhere, too, with paintings by the Impressionist having previously come under attack in Potsdam, Germany, and in Stockholm. burs/tw/imm
A video posted on X by "Riposte Alimentaire", a climate activist movement, shows an environmental activist sticking an adhesive poster on Claude Monet's painting the "Coquelicots" (Poppies) and speaking to draw attention to global warming at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. "This nightmarish painting in...
Saturday, 1 June 2024
