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It was not the first attack on the “Mona Lisa.”
Paris:
Two protesters threw soup on Sunday against the armored glass that protects Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in Paris, demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food,” an AFP journalist noted.
Two women poured red and orange soup into the glass, protecting the smiling woman from the muffled screams of the crowd at the Louvre museum in the French capital, an AFP video journalist reported.
“What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food,” they asked, standing in front of the painting and speaking in turns.
“Their agricultural system is sick. Our farmers are dying on the job.”
The action comes as French farmers have been protesting for days to demand better wages, taxes and regulations.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced several measures on Friday, but road blockades continued in different parts of the country.
Sunday’s action follows a series of such moves by climate activists against world-famous paintings to demand more action to phase out fossil fuels and protect the planet.
It was not the first attack on the “Mona Lisa.”
In May 2022, a 36-year-old man threw a custard pie at it because the artists weren’t focusing enough on “the planet”, but the thick glass casing ensured no harm came to it.
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