The Mona Lisa has been left shaken nonetheless unharmed after a visitor to the Louvre tried to shatter the glass maintaining the enviornment’s most infamous painting earlier than smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-connected publicity stunt.
The perpetrator within the Sunday attack modified into once a man disguised as an aged lady who jumped out of a wheelchair earlier than attacking the glass.
“Per chance right here’s aesthetic nuts to me…,” posted the author of a video of the incident’s aftermath that exhibits a Louvre staffer cleansing the glass.
“(He) then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses all around the assign earlier than being tackled by security.”
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The Louvre modified into once not proper away readily accessible for comment.
One more video posted on social media showed the identical staffer finishing cleansing the pane whereas yet any other attendant removes a wheelchair from in entrance of the Da Vinci masterpiece.
“Judge of the earth, individuals are destroying the earth”, the man, dressed in a wig, acknowledged in French in yet any other video posting that showed him being led a long way flung from the Paris gallery with the wheelchair, indicating that the incident doubtless had an environmentalist motive.