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Museum goers on the Louvre in Paris acquired an eyeful—make that a pieful—on Sunday when a supposed local weather activist posing as an aged lady in a wheelchair tried to deface Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with a cream pie.
The unnamed man had used the wheelchair to achieve a entrance row place on the crowded exhibit, which is protected by bulletproof glass after earlier makes an attempt to hurt the portray.
Museum goers say he jumped out of the wheelchair and first tried to interrupt the safety glass earlier than taking a cream pie he had one way or the other hidden from what is really among the tightest safety in Europe, and smeared it throughout the glass whereas yelling in French, “Consider the earth, persons are destroying the earth. Give it some thought. Artists inform you: consider the Earth. That’s why I did this.”
He then threw roses he had additionally one way or the other smuggled into the museum into the group and beneath the portray. Safety escorted him from the constructing and it's unclear if he was charged with making an attempt to hurt one of many world’s nice masterpieces.
The portray was not affected, although the bullet proof glass appeared to have been shaken in video posted on social media of the incident.
Whereas the person’s motives look like local weather associated given his rant, no local weather teams have claimed accountability for the prank.
It's not the primary time the portray has been focused. It was stolen by a museum worker in 1911 and the Mona Lisa’s left elbow was broken by a rock thrown by a Bolivian man in 1956, which led to the bullet proof glass being erected.
Extra just lately, a Russian lady protesting a citizenship rejection from the French authorities scratched the glass when she hurled an empty tea cup on the masterpiece.