Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Two environmental protesters have hurled soup on to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, calling for “healthy and sustainable food”. The painting, which was behind bulletproof glass, appeared to be undamaged.

Gallery visitors looked on in shock as two women threw the yellow-coloured soup before climbing under the barrier in front of the work and flanking the splattered painting, their right hands held up in a salute-like gesture.

One of the two activists removed her jacket to reveal a white T-shirt bearing the slogan of the environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) in black letters.

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    9 months ago

    Half of the comments here don’t even know what cause it was for.

    That’s because the news piece deliberately omits that part, at least from the headline. If they didn’t throw soup at an important piece of bulletproof glass, there wouldn’t even be news coverage.

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        9 months ago

        This is not about whether the info is available at all, but if it’s loud enough in the shitstorm of information that surrounds us. If news sites don’t report on it, then most people don’t hear about it.

        The article also goes out of the way to put the protesters in a bad light, with “Footage posted on X captured the attack on Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece as well as the gasps of visitors and the cries of children apparently shocked by the incident.”

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          9 months ago

          You are right the article should have said how noble and wonderful they were for not destroying the painting. Everyone deserves a fucking medal for not being as shitty as they could have been

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            9 months ago

            Their acts physically were unable to destroy the painting. I’m just saying that the article seems biased by focusing on the cries of children as if it wasn’t just soup splattering against glass