PARIS, May 30 (Reuters) – The Mona Lisa was shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a Louvre visitor tried to break the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cream on its surface in an apparently climate-related ad. trick.
The perpetrator is a man disguised as an elderly lady who jumped out of a wheelchair before attacking the glass.
“Maybe it’s just crazy for me …”, the author of a video of the aftermath of the incident, which shows a Louvre employee cleaning the glass, posted. “(He) then continues to spread cake on the glass and throw roses everywhere before being beaten by the guards.”
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The Louvre was not immediately available for comment.
A man tries to erase the cake smeared on the protective glass of the painting “Mona Lisa” at the Lourv Museum in Paris, France, May 29, 2022 in this image on the screen, obtained from a video on social networks. Twitter / @ klevisl007 / via REUTERS
Another video posted on social media shows that the same employee finished cleaning the glass while another employee removed a wheelchair from Da Vinci’s masterpiece.
“Think of the land, people are destroying the land,” the man in the wig said in French in another video, which shows him being taken from a gallery in Paris in a wheelchair, indicating that the incident may have involved a conservationist. motive.
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Report by Tasilo Hummel; edited by John Stone Street
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